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The Happiest People in the World, June 6
Christians Are Truly Happy
Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.
Psalm 144:15
If you would find happiness and peace in all you do, you must do
everything in reference to the glory of God. If you would have peace
in your hearts, you must seek earnestly to imitate the life of Christ.
Then there will be no need of affecting cheerfulness or of your seeking
for pleasure in the indulgence of pride and the frivolities of the world.
You will have a serenity and happiness in rightdoing that you can never
realize in a course of wrong. Jesus took human nature, passing through
infancy, childhood, and youth, that He might know how to sympathize
with all and leave an example for all children and youth. He is acquainted
with the temptations and weaknesses of children. He has, in His love,
opened a fountain of pleasure and joy for the soul that trusts in Him. By
seeking to honor Christ and to follow His example, children and youth
can be truly happy. They may feel their accountability to labor with
Jesus Christ in the great plan of saving souls. If youth will feel their
responsibility before God, they will be elevated above everything that is
mean, selfish, and impure. Life to such will be full of importance. They
will realize that they have something great and glorious to live for. This
will have an influence upon youth to make them earnest, cheerful, and
strong under all the burdens, discouragements, and difficulties of life, as
was their divine Pattern.... I entreat of you to ever cultivate thoughtful
responsibility to God. The consciousness that you are doing those things
which God can approve, will make you strong in His strength; and by
copying the Pattern, you may, like Him, increase in wisdom and in favor
with God and man.”
Those who in everything make God first and last and best are the
happiest people in the world.
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