Another Way To Happiness (Psalm 32:2)

Are you happy?  I mean are you really happy?  The Lord wants you to be happy and he has declared ways for you to find and enjoy this happiness.  Many times when God speaks of happiness, he uses the word blessed.  Probably one of the most familiar places in scripture which speaks of the believer being blessed is found in Psalm 1 which reads: Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.  This is a wonderful passages which highlights actions which bring to the believer the happy or blessed life as well as that which will bring judgment.

However, there is another passage in scripture which promises happiness to the believer and states that happiness is experienced when your sins are forgiven and covered.  "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered." (Psalm 32:2)

Remember how happy you were when you first trusted Christ?  Your sins had been removed as far as the east is from the west and you had been forgiven.  The burden of sin was removed from your heart and for the first time you experienced true happiness.  God wants us to continue having this happiness, but when we sin, we are robbed of it.  The longer you remain in sin, the more deeply you will experience the loss of happiness.  Possessions and experiences will not change your condition and make you happy because happiness is never found them.  The way to regain the happiness is to acknowledge and confess your sin to God. (Psalm 32:5).  If sins removes your happiness, then getting forgiveness will bring it back again.

As you find yourself struggling through life and seeming to have lost your happiness, you would be best to ask The Lord to show you if there is any hidden sin in your heart that needs to be confessed.

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