Ecclesiastes 2:25 - JOY IN JESUS!
Ecclesiastes 2:25 (GWT) Who can eat or enjoy
themselves without God?
COMMENTARY PEARL
The Key To A Happy New Year
Let me be the first to wish you a Happy
New Year! Happy New Year is an often-heard,
post-Christmas statement of encouragement and well-wishing.
To be sure, everyone desires a happy new year
but how does a person actually experience a
happy new year? What is the key to having 2020
really be a happy one for you?
Many people equate happiness with money
and materialism. To them, happiness is a million
dollars. Others equate happiness with good physical
health. To them, happiness is an in-shape body
hitting on all eight cylinders. Still others equate
happiness with personal achievement. To them,
happiness is a big promotion, or graduation, or a
milestone achievement.
Years ago, I read a true story about
tennis star, Boris Becker. He was the youngest man
to ever win Wimbledon, achieving victory in
1985 at the tender age of seventeen. In the late
1980s, Becker was on the mountain top of fame,
fortune, and personal achievement. Yet, he was so
unhappy and on the brink of suicide. Becker was
quoted as saying, I had won Wimbledon twice
before, once as the youngest player. I was rich. I
had all the material possessions I needed.
Its the old song of movie stars and pop stars
who commit suicide. They have everything, and
yet they are so unhappy. I had no inner peace. I
was a puppet on a string.
Isnt that amazing? Becker had all the
things the world says will make for happiness, yet
he was so incredibly unhappy. Could it be that
true happiness is not found in health, wealth,
and achievement?
The Bible makes it clear that true
happiness comes when you and I are right with God.
When we are yielded to Christ and His will, then
we can experience true happiness - inner peace
and unspeakable joy. Are you right with God
today? Are your sins confessed to Him? Are you
living surrendered to the Lordship of Jesus
Christ?
Blaise Pascal, the seventeenth century
mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and philosopher
astutely said, There is a God-shaped vacuum in the
heart of every man which cannot be filled by any
created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made
known through Jesus.
Let me encourage you to take sober
inventory of your life today. Are you trying to fill
the inner vacuum with health, wealth,
achievement, or the like? Those things will never make
you truly happy; they will never satisfy the
deep longings of your soul. The only One who can
do that is Jesus.
Start your year off right by bowing your
knee and your life to King Jesus. Give Him first
place in everything for that is the key to
true happiness. (Pastor Jeff Schreve, His Heart
Ministries)
LINKS FOR FURTHER STUDY ON THIS TOPIC
http://www.abible.com/devotions/2005/20050228-1142.html
http://www.abible.com/devotions/2019/20190710-1307.html
EXCELLENT VIDEO SERIES ON 28 REVELATIONS OF
JESUS
1st of 28: Divine Dining:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_7j1QIKqmY
2nd of 28: Pictures of the Divine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lNI-OQ7-eQ
3rd of 28: A Dirty Bible:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMkPvBuuFd4
4th of 28: Cared For:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztXyJVdcCds
5th of 28: Saved:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX45kGRe1HI
6th of 28: You Can Change:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd0gkvK18fo
7th of 28: Reprogramming Our Brains:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov36f_RapXc
8th of 28 Our Holy Father:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XabXLEXsxbY
9th of 28 Gifts of Service:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtuGZviodkA
10th of 28 The Holy Spirit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in89XVs4cGo
11th of 28 The Law of God:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Q601HjogI
12th of 28 The Sabbath:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sakgnKoTzZI
13th of 28 The Church:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkFw2XsTW-w
14th of 28 The Gift of Prophecy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiO2VC09NPI
15th of 28 Stewardship:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z_lNLAataw
16th of 28 Marriage and the Family:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EybxvMQ0K7E
17th of 28 The Remnant and Its Mission:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK6tix2K2qA
18th of 28 Christian Behavior:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecVGsQfAo7Q
Live ongoing series in progress.
YOUR COMMENTS
If anyone has a paraphrase, commentary or
testimony on this passage of Scripture, either
personal or otherwise, I would be interested in
hearing from you. Thanks in advance and let's keep
uplifting Jesus that all might be drawn to Him. Fred
Gibbs
