Holiness Over Happiness
Your holiness or your happiness? Which is more important to you?
To God, our eternal holiness is far more significant than our momentary happiness.
Of course Jesus wants us to be happy. That's the essence of the Beatitudes where the word "blessed" can also be translated as "happy" (Matthew 5:1-11). In these verses, Jesus gives us a roadmap for happiness.
But God is much more concerned with our eternal personhood than our temporary state of happiness. God's desire is the purity of our character. Why? Because we are commanded to be holy as God is holy (1 Peter 1:16).
Happiness comes and goes…
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