Happiness doesn’t mean something that’s only in a surface level, even if people around us treat it that way. In fact, true happiness—happiness from God—is peaceful, safe and good. It’s genuine, and it isn’t based on situations that are empty or bad for us.

God may hold something back from you for this reason. It may be that He sees what we can’t, and He has something better in mind. So it’s not that God doesn’t want us to be happy. Rather, it’s the fact that He wants us to have eternal joy, and that causes Him to close certain doors now.

Happiness may not come the way we expect it to, or be packaged in the wrapper we assume it will. But if it’s from Him, it will be beautiful; and likely better than what we planned.

There is nothing wrong with wanting happiness, because God wants it for us too. It’s just a question of not exalting it over God. It’s an issue of being willing to surrender to Him for those seasons that don’t feel so easy, while trusting that His blessings are still on the way. 

“This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.”

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