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Happiness Is
Matthew 5:6
Online Sermon:
http://www.mckeesfamily.com/?page_id=3567
Happiness Defined
Are you happy?
The Britannica dictionary defines
happiness as “a state of emotional well-being that a person
experiences either in a narrow sense, when good things
happen in a specific
moment, or more
broadly, as a positive
evaluation of one’s
life and
accomplishments
overall.”1
Determining one’s
level of happiness is
not easily attainable for while it is greatly influenced by the
wealth, safety and freedom one has living within one’s own
country,2 it is also derived from a variety of other factors.
Even though the rich, famous, and powerful have the most
expensive items one can purchase this does not mean that
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they are happy but merely partakers of expensive marketing
endeavors.
While having an easy, rich, or successful life
certainly goes a long way towards helping one feel happy the
privileged few who attain such status are still susceptible to
bouts of depression and anxiety.
And if worldly success was
the only factor of happiness, then how does one explain that
some of the poorest and oppressed of this world, despite their
bleak circumstances, are able to feel joy in midst of trials,
tribulations, and injustices?
Asking if you are happy is a deceptively complex
question for the answer often changes moment by moment
regardless of one’s circumstances.
If happiness were to be defined as the
emotional well-being of one’s mind, then why
aren’t more people using their imagination
and the power of their minds to will
themselves too always be happy?
While most people want to be happy, they are often unsure if
what they are feeling day by day could be labeled as either
good or happiness!
For example, when I ask a colleague of
mine at work if he is happy, he usually responds with “well I
am not unhappy!”
While most people want to feel a sense of
joy, accomplishment and satisfaction with their lives is this too
Taken from the following website: https://www.britannica.com/topic/happiness
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Taken from the following website: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-globalhappiness-levels-in-2021/
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lofty of a goal for something that is not only difficult to define
but almost impossible to produce?
The following sermon is
going to review Matthew 5:6 and other Scriptures to suggest
that happiness is not the product of one’s circumstances or
the fabrication of one’s mind but a gift from God granted to
those in His family who “rejoice in His works and covenantal
faithfulness to their Creator!”3
Happiness Link to One’s Circumstances
There are many examples in Scripture of God’s people
being happy due to the wonderful things happening in their
lives.
In the Old
Testament happiness
was often associated
with “sexual love
(Song of Solomon
1:4), marriage
(Proverbs 5:18), the
birth of children
(Psalms 113:9), the
gathering in of the
harvest, military victory (Isaiah 9:3) and the drinking of wine
(Psalms 104:15).”4
There was great happiness when Joseph
was reunited with his family, and the widow Ruth married her
kinsman redeemer, Boaz.
It would have been easy to be a
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Martin H. Manser, Dictionary of Bible Themes: The Accessible and Comprehensive Tool for
Topical Studies (London: Martin Manser, 2009).
4
David P. Scaer, “Joy,” in Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, electronic ed., Baker
Reference Library (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1996), 430.
happy Israelite during Solomon’s reign when nothing was
made of silver because it was so plentiful it had little or no
value (2 Chronicles 9:20)!
We are also told that the Israelites
were especially joyous upon their deliverance from Egypt
(Exodus 18:9-11) and their return from Babylonian captivity
(Jeremiah 31:1-19)!5
In the New
Testament joy is
associated with
favorable
circumstances as
well.
The Shepherd
who finds His lost
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