"If happiness is your highest aim in life, you will find nothing
but emptiness. God rarely uses happiness to draw near, for he knows that when
we are happy we rarely seek God out.
Questions do not begin to be asked until we have experienced
pain, a man does not say “Where is God?” when he is happy. It is when he has
been knocked down that he begins to ask these questions.
Love
blooms in the season of sorrow, as odd as it may sound, it is in the work and
toil that we begin the task of laying down the crops. It is in the struggles of
life that we see the face of God; For when we have had everything ripped away
from us, we will see, like the dawn of a new day, that the cross was born out
of sorrow.
Happiness
is wonderful, it fills us up and makes us content, but what are we content in?
Do we ever cling to the cross in our self-happiness? Do we look to Jesus and
truly see the man who was described as being a man of many sorrows? (Isaiah
53:3)
Happiness
is comforting, but sorrow brings an invitation that nothing else can ever
offer. We must find God through the heartbreak, through the questions that
come, and through the seasons of hardship.
For we
grow close with those we suffer with, and we have a God who suffers with us.
Just look at Jesus, He carried it all so that we would know that when it is our
time to also carry the cross, that we have Him to lean on and to find shelter
in.
Do
not seek happiness above all else, seek Jesus."
-T.B. Laberge
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