Happiness is inward. It’s living life from the inside out! Part One
Happiness begins by allowing the Architect of the ages to place our life on His potter’s wheel to mold and make us according to His design.
In the beginning, the hand of God scooped up a handful of clay, molded it, breathed life into it, and man became a living soul. Today, when we come to Him battered, blemished and broken, He places our clay frame upon His wheel, breaks us, remakes us an releases us as a vessel of perfection, beauty and honor. The next time you look in the mirror, tell yourself confidently, “God doesn’t manufacture junk, and He doesn’t sponsor flops. I’m an original expression of God’s creative genius.”
We’ve already seen that happiness requires that we be broken in spirit, which leads to mourning for wrongdoing and then to the quality of meekness. Now we are ready for the final inward condition for happiness: what Jesus calls hunger and thirst for righteousness.
Right Living
In the sixteenth century, when the majestic King James version of the Bible was being put together, righteousness meant “right wise,” or “as it ought to be.” We can think of it simply as “right living.”
Righteousness is right living according to God’s standard of holiness. “Be holy,” says the Lord, “because I am holy” 1 Peter 1:6. Our standards of right living are not to be chosen by the herd instinct of our humanistic society. Humanism has defiled man and demoted God to a cosmic bellhop responding to our patronizing tips. Humanistic society states, “I am the captain of my soul and the master of my fate.” But God has published His standard of righteousness in the Word of God, the Bible.
Source: Being Happy in an Unhappy World
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