Have you ever realized that you are never really and continually happy? You are looking for success and happiness. You are looking for it impatiently because you know that the time to find it is limited. How long have you been seeking already? Money! Perhaps you put your trust in riches. Your sole aim is to get as much money as possible. You want to be able to buy whatever pleases you. You want to be admired by your friends for spending your money freely. Perhaps you have been very successful in these your aims. But deep down you are not happy! Enjoyment! Perhaps you spent a great evening with your friends. Everything went as well as you could have wished. You felt very happy. But - for how long? Nature! Perhaps you enjoy nature. Watching a sunset fills you with happiness - and yet at the same time it makes you sad. You feel a longing which is not fulfilled. Hobby! Perhaps you are enjoying a hobby. Sport is your greatest ambition and whenever you practice it you feel happy. And yet - even, if you are very successful, you realize that there must be more - there is a longing for real happiness. Love and Care! Do you have the feeling that nobody loves you deeply and yet you sense that love would make you happy? Out of love you try to look for your fellowmen. Quite naturally you are expecting a response to your acts of love - and again you are disappointed. Sex! Perhaps you are looking for happiness in sex and again you are unsatisfied. The pleasure is just for a moment and there you go again… disappointed and unsatisfied! Our friend in the story above did all that and yet he could not find lasting happiness. Happiness came only when he traced his root back home. Jesus is your root; in Him is everlasting joy and happiness. The only thing you MUST do is to: Acknowledge: "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God"(Romans 3:23). "God be merciful to me a sinner" (Luke 18:13). Repent: "I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish" (Luke 13:3). "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out" (Acts 3:19). Confess: "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (I John 1:9). Forsake: "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him... for he will abundantly pardon" (Isaiah 55:7). Believe: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16). If you are a new Christian, write us and receive a gift from the Director. |



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