Saturday, September 10, 2016

In search of happiness

For a person who lives in such a perfectly happy country, where everything is good.

The children have meaningful and fulfilled lives, and all men and women have a high standard of living. You live in a place where there is free speech, freedom of the mind and the soul, and boundless opportunities.

Your future is full of hope and the country stable, and secure. Yet, you work night and day. Stealing some time away from your busy schedules, for family events and what not. You hardly have the time to eat and sleep, much less exercise.




You eat plain bread and stay in private properties, and your jobs change every season.
You live daily in a maybe.
At night, you turn to your side and sleep scrunched and lonely.

How happy you are, that you wish to take another to pass each day by your side. As you silently prod away in the darkness, gathering your resources.
That may not enter your belly for the next twenty years.
Your waist swells and your belt tightens, because it has bloated up with gas and fats. Your blood pressure goes sky high and your eyes, ears and memories start to fail you, as you continue to grasp at straws to build your nest.

In search for happiness, you move here and there. Keeping secrets and making friends. How successful you are, only you can say, as you crow a top a haystack in a cold day.
 

Jeremiah 17:10, 21-25

10 “I the Lord search the heart
    and examine the mind,
to reward each person according to their conduct,
    according to what their deeds deserve.”
21 This is what the Lord says: Be careful not to carry a load on the Sabbath day or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem. 22 Do not bring a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your ancestors. 23 Yet they did not listen or pay attention; they were stiff-necked and would not listen or respond to discipline. 24 But if you are careful to obey me, declares the Lord, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy by not doing any work on it, 25 then kings who sit on David’s throne will come through the gates of this city with their officials.

http://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/matthew-henry-complete/jeremiah/17.html

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