HAPPINESS

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] ….”