Day 451 - 469
Titled : Happiness
I was at the poolside when this jumps onto me: Generations come and go but it makes no difference. The sun rises and sets and hurries around to rise again.
It seems like many things and events in life are futile. Things are never new, I am not implying in technology or some medical breakthroughs, I am just merely speaking upon human relationships in the pursuit of happiness in our lives.
I've never understand this meaning of happiness until I met "happiness" itself who is God. For certain reasons in which I cannot even give a rightful explaination of how such happiness comes by. Such joy from the Lord even when I am in a difficult financial situation of stretch.
Taking finances aside, I mean finances are important but they are not the most important of things in my life. Money come and money go, money spent in a wise manner determines financial well planned. Money can be calculation, budgeted and forecast in some sense, what I feel which is more important is things we cannot measure, touch, calculate or forecast.
1. Situations
2. People
3. Feeling and emotions
Life's experiences are not always happy. But the world tells us to demand happiness, do all we can to attain it. Making personal satisfaction as our chief goal. In writing this part of my own life, I discovered that wealth, power, position, wives, husbands, girl friends or boyfriends and accomplishments can have the power to create a temporary getaway of happiness but it is never lasting. Meaning, you can have everything in life yet you are not happy.
Happiness is an elusive goal because people and circumstances change quickly, something quicker than what we can imagine. Sudden emotions, heartaches, lost of money, love ones just to mention a few.
True and lasting happiness, however comes only from pleasing and obeying a certain direction and will in life. Which I call Him God. Thus happiness cannot be achieved, somehow or rather in life, you will get disappointed or let down by something, some people, somehow, you just feel unjustified of what you received.
I look at a few people in my life of how can they live such a beautiful joyous life. Other people might think that they are kind of pathetic, but from the kind of joy they give out, just one word or describe Brilliant !!
They just sparkles like diamond 20 carats in whole.
No matter how blessed we can be, up to a certain degree we arnt satisfied. To what degree can we live in total happiness, where no matter what hardship and storms that try to wreck our lives, we flip it and changes it into happiness instead?
The answer is happiness cannot be achieved; it can only be received. It can be recieve only through a right and strong relationship with God.
Question here, do u think God will worry about tomorrow? Frankly I dont think so, God is never worried. It is not his nature.
Therefore when we have a strong relationship with God, our worries turn lesser. We start to adapt to his nature residing in a sleeping corner in our heart. Remember he blow his breath into the dust he made from earth and human came into life. Every single one has the ability to ignite this breath of God in us, whether you are a christian or not. This breath determines our destiny and wakes up the giant sleeping in each of us.
For reassuringly, many times, we do not know what is the best for us, we do not love ourselves enough, that is the reason we keep falling into that shit hole, loving someone you thought you love, which the fact, maybe you do not or hurting someone who loves you more than yourself. Love is really profound, until you met Jesus Christ in a personal encounter, you then realised that to love, is to be like Jesus Christ. That is the selfless love.
Well the day I said a certain thing, " Break me God, so I'll be like Jesus Christ, break my heart for what breaks yours Jesus " Testings came immediately, God took the most important thing in my life away. Totally and immediately. I was somehow forced to obey and choosed love. Broken till the max, shag till the brim, no hope, no vision, no life, nothing, I just dazed. My mind blanked out, but His love comforted me, and gave me His vision.
Truly till today I've walked, I've never regret telling God to break me. He shaped me, not only He shaped me, He shaped the man I gave up into God's hands. 2 years from now, even thou we are not together, the kind of love Luoyi and myself has really got tested and grew stronger, clearer, and in a better direction. I realised when God break and shaped me, I committed my love into God's hands to shape the love in both of us as well.
Even for parents, their love for their kids sometimes ended up hurting their kids. For daddies and mummies whom you thought you love your kids by doing alot for them and neglected them by not giving them time to spend with you.
For those who love yourself so selfishly, you shoot the arrow back at yourself too, as you will turn futile living in you and your own world of narcissism with me myself and I. Which is self illusion and end up with the whole world against you.
So do we really know what is good for ourselves? Until you have a right relationship with God our Father, then you will know what is best for you in obeying Him. For He is the one who really knows us and prepares the best for us. If you are chasing happiness, you will never find it, if you are seeking God, you will find everlasting joy.