The Happiest
People in the World
Happy is that people, whose
God is the Lord. Ps. 144:15
If you would find happiness and peace in
all you do, you must do everything in reference to the glory of God. If you
would have peace in your hearts, you must seek earnestly to imitate the life of
Christ. Then there will be no need of affecting cheerfulness or of your seeking
for pleasure in the indulgence of pride and the frivolities of the world. You
will have a serenity and happiness in rightdoing that you can never realize in
a course of wrong. Jesus took human nature, passing through infancy, childhood,
and youth, that He might know how to sympathize with all and leave an example
for all children and youth. He is acquainted with the temptations and
weaknesses of children. He has, in His love, opened a fountain of pleasure and
joy for the soul that trusts in Him. By seeking to honor Christ and to follow
His example, children and youth can be truly happy. They may feel their
accountability to labor with Jesus Christ in the great plan of saving souls. If
youth will feel their responsibility before God, they will be elevated above
everything that is mean, selfish, and impure. Life to such will be full of
importance. They will realize that they have something great and glorious to
live for. This will have an influence upon youth to make them earnest,
cheerful, and strong under all the burdens, discouragements, and difficulties
of life, as was their divine Pattern. . . . I entreat of you to ever cultivate
thoughtful responsibility to God. The consciousness that you are doing those
things which God can approve, will make you strong in His strength; and by
copying the Pattern, you may, like Him, increase in wisdom and in favor with
God and man."
Those who in everything make God first
and last and best are the happiest people in the world.
From My Life Today - Page 161
