Posts tagged with ‘Happiness’

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1/23/19 GOD CANNOT GIVE US A HAPPINESS AND PEACE APART FROM HIMSELF

by Barry Lovett

“He satisfies the longing soul and fills the hungry soul with goodness.”  Psalm 107:9. If we are honest with ourselves, we know that “empty” feeling. It is an emptiness that friendship, love, sex, money, power, popularity, or success can never fill – a longing for something indefinable, something precious but lost, that elusive “something more”.  […]

2/1/18 THOSE WHO WALK IN CLOSE FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD ARE TRULY BLESSED

by Barry Lovett

“Like the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of fools.” Ecclesiastes 7:6. People living in immorality often insist they are very happy, and they try to prove it by laughing a lot.  They joke and say everything is just great. They may even try to convince themselves that they have found […]

6/6/17 OF ALL THAT IS PRECIOUS, JESUS TOPS THE LIST

by Barry Lovett

“Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious.” I Peter 2:4 While we pile up many things that are important to us, very little of it is really precious. In fact, the most precious things in life are not material things at all. Rather, it’s the people […]

1/19/16 GOD CANNOT GIVE US A HAPPINESS AND PEACE APART FROM HIMSELF

by Barry Lovett

“He satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness.”  Psalm 107:9. If we are honest with ourselves, we know that “empty” feeling. It is an emptiness that friendship, love, sex, money, power, popularity, or success can never fill – a longing for something indefinable, something precious but lost, that elusive “something more”.  […]