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Happiness is unavailable, but you can change that!

Do you ever wonder whether God even cares if we’re happy? This world can be so hard, and we aren’t promised an easy road. But that’s not the whole story. The Bible is filled with verses that prove that ours is a God who not only loves celebrations but also desperately wants his children to experience happiness. Why else would he go to the lengths he did to ensure our eternal happiness in his...

wait for joy, hoping it comes to us. Rather, we must take action to lay hold of joy in God. The command to be sexually pure and abstain from immorality requires proactive choices (see 1 Thessalonians 4:3). Similarly, to glorify God in all we do, love our neighbor, care for our families, help the poor, and resolve conflicts requires actions on our part. The same is true of the command to rejoice. The fact that “rejoice” is followed by “always” and is repeated (“again I say rejoice”) makes it one of
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