Finding Happiness
We Pray that you join us in revival services at Union Grove United Methodist Church tonight and tomorrow night. Nightly services beginning at 7 p.m. each night and will be conducted by Pastor George McBounds of Mt. Elam of Pearl, MS.
Scott County Girl Scout Unit is sponsoring a PINK Walk Awareness on Saturday, October 20, 2018 at 8:00 a.m. at Gaddis Park. For more information, please contact Pamela Smith at pspy01@-yahoo.com or Stephanie Spivey at stepspivey@yahoo.com
Union Grove United Methodist Church will also host 5th Sunday Service on Sunday, September 30.
A word from Pastor Mann. Everyone is in search of happiness. We search for it in relationships, through knowledge, through material possessions, through entertainment, through pleasure, through activities, through self-improvement and so on. In our search to find happiness we often look for it in the wrong places.
Happiness found in the wrong places tends to be temporary. Once the “newness” wears off so does the happiness. Once the relationship loses its “excitement” we stop being happy with that person. After the event that we looked forward to is over, we begin our search for something else to look forward to. Once we make an improvement with our physical appearance, we find something else about us that makes us unhappy and then pursue trying to change it too. It is a never-ending cycle.
I have good news for you. There is a “happiness” that doesn’t wear off or fade. The Bible connects this happiness with blessings. These blessings aren’t based on external conditions and they aren’t temporary. To find them, you have to look in the right places — not to people, not to things. But there is a condition to receiving them and the condition is written in the verse above.
The true source of happiness is found in keeping God’s word- obeying it, applying it to your life, letting it be your guide through all paths of life, hiding it in your heart, renewing your mind with it, letting it transform you and change your attitudes. The true source of happiness comes from seeking the Lord with your whole heart.
A divided heart, half-heartedness, seeking only on occasion and turning to Him only in times of trouble, will not experience lasting happiness and true blessings.
Are you looking for true happiness? Are you wanting those eternal blessings? Then make God and living by His word your first priority. Start doing what the scripture says and stop running to and fro wasting your time looking for the blessing of happiness in all the wrong places.
Have an awesome day. Finding true happiness is not difficult — just keep God’s word and seek Him with your whole heart and you will find it.
