Many people love to boast about the things that they have which everyone seeks after but do not have, whatever it may be. They boast and their boasting makes people feel uncomfortable, upset or envious. The reason people feel that way is because people not only seek after earthly happiness.
Earthly happiness is that which people find security. People derive their earthly happiness from not only the earthly temporal things they have, but also their security. That is why people feel uncomfortable, upset or covetous when seeing others also have what they have and find their security in.
The earthly happiness people have is not true joy. The nature of joy is that it is supernatural. It is a fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22). Since joy is a fruit of the spirit, it does not and cannot come from the flesh. For as the Scriptures say:
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
(Romans 8:5-9)
Earthly happiness is not only temporal. It is an illusion, because it is not eternal. True life is eternal life. One's temporal life is not real life, though it may exist, precisely because it is not eternal. It is only the eternal things which one does in this life which are real. As the Scriptures say:
Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
(John 6:31-35)
Jesus is the Bread of Life because He is the Everlasting Life (John 14:6). The manna which represents food, and hence life, is not true everlasting life, and therefore not life. Rather, it is Jesus who is the Life, and only in Him can Life be found. Without Jesus, there is no life. The life you live without Jesus is nothing but mere existence. You are a dead soul without Jesus, a living dead. You may breath, move, talk, laugh and eat, but you have not real life. For life is in the soul, because Salvation is of the soul.
Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. (1 Peter 1:8-11)
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent (John 17:3)
And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. (Revelation 14:6-7)
Do not boast or be smug about what you have and other do not have. For what you have now or what others do not have is meaningless. The happiness you seek in such things is an illusion. You may think you are happy, but you are not truly joyful, for you seek happiness in that from which no joy can come, to satisfy your flesh. True joy can never come from the flesh. It can only be found in the Spirit.
Repent, repent, repent of your sins. Turn to Jesus Christ whose arms are open wide, waiting for you to return to Him. He loves you deeply and wants you to repent and find Everlasting Life, which is found only in Him. and Him alone. Ask, seek, and knock and you will find Him (Matthew 7:7).
Earthly happiness is that which people find security. People derive their earthly happiness from not only the earthly temporal things they have, but also their security. That is why people feel uncomfortable, upset or covetous when seeing others also have what they have and find their security in.
The earthly happiness people have is not true joy. The nature of joy is that it is supernatural. It is a fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22). Since joy is a fruit of the spirit, it does not and cannot come from the flesh. For as the Scriptures say:
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
(Romans 8:5-9)
Earthly happiness is not only temporal. It is an illusion, because it is not eternal. True life is eternal life. One's temporal life is not real life, though it may exist, precisely because it is not eternal. It is only the eternal things which one does in this life which are real. As the Scriptures say:
Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
(John 6:31-35)
Jesus is the Bread of Life because He is the Everlasting Life (John 14:6). The manna which represents food, and hence life, is not true everlasting life, and therefore not life. Rather, it is Jesus who is the Life, and only in Him can Life be found. Without Jesus, there is no life. The life you live without Jesus is nothing but mere existence. You are a dead soul without Jesus, a living dead. You may breath, move, talk, laugh and eat, but you have not real life. For life is in the soul, because Salvation is of the soul.
Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. (1 Peter 1:8-11)
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent (John 17:3)
And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. (Revelation 14:6-7)
Do not boast or be smug about what you have and other do not have. For what you have now or what others do not have is meaningless. The happiness you seek in such things is an illusion. You may think you are happy, but you are not truly joyful, for you seek happiness in that from which no joy can come, to satisfy your flesh. True joy can never come from the flesh. It can only be found in the Spirit.
Repent, repent, repent of your sins. Turn to Jesus Christ whose arms are open wide, waiting for you to return to Him. He loves you deeply and wants you to repent and find Everlasting Life, which is found only in Him. and Him alone. Ask, seek, and knock and you will find Him (Matthew 7:7).
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