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Psalm 144:15 - Is There More to Life?

Psalm 144:15 (NLT) Yes, joyful are those who 
live like this! Joyful indeed are those whose God 
is the Lord. 

COMMENTARY PEARL

   Before I became a Christian at age 
seventeen, I was sick and tired of this world. I had 
been raised in a home without God. I didnt 
have anything to overcome as far as obstacles to 
the Christian faith because I knew nothing about 
it. 
   I had been to church a few times with my 
grandmother, but what I heard never really penetrated for 
the most part. I was truly godless. 
   As I watched the adults in my world, I 
saw affluence and all the world had to offer. 
But I also saw how miserable they were. So, I 
went out on my own path and experienced enough to 
see the emptiness of it. And by the time I was 
seventeen, I knew that life as this world offers it is 
empty. Coming from a broken home and a 
disillusioned generation, I was searching for meaning. 
   My question was not so much whether there 
was life after death. It was whether there was 
life during life. Was there more to life? 
   Then I heard about Jesus Christ. I heard 
one of His statements in which He said, My 
purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying 
life (John 10:10 NLT). Jesus not only offers life 
after death; He offers life during life. And that 
got my attention. 
   I noticed that Christians seemed to have 
found meaning. They werent doing the things I 
had been doing, and they had contentment. And 
when I became a Christian myself and started 
reading the Bible, it came alive to me. It was the 
users manual for life that Id been searching 
for. 
   The world offers a fleeting happiness 
that comes and goes. But God offers a happiness 
that will be there despite our circumstances. 
This happiness doesnt come from what you have; 
it comes from who you know. [Greg Laurie from 
Harvest Ministries; https://www.harvestdaily.com] 

ONE LINERS

God cannot give us a happiness and peace 
apart from Himself, because it is not there. There 
is no such thing. C S Lewis 

You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and 
our hearts are restless until they rest in you. 
St. Augustine  

There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of 
each man which cannot be satisfied by any created 
thing but only by God the Creator, made know 
through Jesus Christ. Blaise Pascal 

LINKS FOR FURTHER STUDY 

Psalm 144:15 - Hardwired For Happiness.

http://www.abible.com/devotions/2019/20191027-1147.html 

John 10:10 - The Abundant Life!

http://www.abible.com/devotions/2022/20221008-0857.html 

LINKS WORTH CHECKING OUT

https://abible.com/links/