“When you’re safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you’re having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.” – Thornton Wilder, American writer
Auckland Airport
“STRESS IS CAUSED BY BEING ‘HERE’ BUT WANTING TO BE ‘THERE’.” – Eckhardt Tolle
“I cannot help feeling that the final explanation of the state of the Church today is a defective sense of sin and a defective doctrine of sin.” – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
When I read today what D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones says about happiness, it came to my mind again what I saw yesterday on the main street here in Kaitaia and what I was actually going to forget.
Happiness
The street sign said, “You can’t buy happiness ….. but you can buy REAL ESTATE, & that’s kind of the same thing!”
In Matthew 5:4 we read in The Amplified Bible:
“Blessed and enviably happy, [with a happiness produced by experience of God’s favor and especially conditioned by the revelation of His matchless grace] are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted!”
And his is what D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones says about happiness in connection with this verse, “But the gospel says,’Happy are they that mourn.’ Indeed, they are the only ones who are happy! [see also Luke 6] ….”