Why I am HAPPY

This blog post is something that God has laid on my heart recently, I hope it helps you wherever you are in life.

Well over and over this idea of "happiness" has been at the forefront of my life. What is happiness? What makes us happy? How do we maintain happiness? The idea of happiness is not something that is just made up or something we get from worldly desires, such as buying a new car, getting a new boyfriend, getting that promotion, or even falling in love.  Yes these moments can bring us a momentary happiness, but that happiness is empty.  It doesn't satisfy your soul, it doesn't last forever; therefore, that happiness will never make you content. You will always want the next "fix", the next "big" thing, another person who could make you "happier", you will search and search never finding what you desire.
Most people miss the one simple concept of happiness, that it is your CHOICE whether or not you are happy. YOU CHOOSE, no one else can make that decision for you. Bad things will always happen in your life, everyone dies, everything fades away, you flesh will fail you, you mind will deceive you, because these things on Earth are not PERMANENT! What is permanent is the love of Jesus!! Who through the passion of suffering died for us on the cross, so that through HIM only can we find true happiness.
So if you aren't happy you are missing the one choice you have, to choose to be happy through knowing that Jesus died for you to be happy, to be content, to feel ALIVE. It is that easy.  There is no ten step process you have to go through to find happiness. You just have to make the choice.
Everyday you have to make the decision if you are going to be happy today or not.  I find the days I spend in the Lord have more peace, more laughter, my soul is more content, and I am happier than any other. My soul finds peace in the Lord, and in that peace I find true ETERNAL happiness.
So if you are wondering why I am always positive and smiling, it is because I have found a soulful happiness through Jesus and nothing else.

"He that handles a matter wisely shall find good: and whoever trusts in the LORD, happy is he."
~Proverbs 16:20

"The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoices; and with my song I will praise him."
- Psalm 28:7

So if you aren't happy, look at your heart.  Where are you spending your time, you money, and your love? Is it in worldly things or in heavenly promises?
CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY!

Through Christ alone, my happiness is found!

Love always,
A Happy Insightful Mel