ARE YOU HAPPY=FOR THOSE AROUND YOU

 

ARE YOU HAPPY

FOR THOSE AROUND YOU?

Did you ever notice

How some people are unhappy

And unfilled?

How they sometimes dislike

Or even destroy those

Around them?

What makes people like this?

What makes people

So defensive?

“Let us beset the JUST ONE

Because he is obnoxious

To us ........

To us

He is the censure of our thoughts

Merely to see him

Is a hardship for us........

These were their thoughts

But they erred;

For their wickedness blinded them

And they knew not

The hidden COUNSELS of God”                                                          Wisdom 2:12, 14, 21-22

I think it is probably us

When we see someone

That we perceive

As more successful than us

It implies

That we made poor choices

And there is something

Innately wrong with us

NOTHING can be further

From the truth

We are to be HAPPY

Within ourselves-

Because we too

Have been successful

As long as we have done

Our very best

With what we have

To work with

“His master replied,

'Well done-good and faithful servant!

You have been faithful

With a few things

I will put you

In charge of many things

Come and share

Your master's HAPPINESS”                                                                 Matthew 25:21

Are you HAPPY

For those around you

WHEN they are successful?

As CHRISTIANS-

We are CALLED to be

LOVE is what makes a CHRISTIAN-

A Christian 

And we are called

Not only to be happy

For our brothers and sisters in Christ 

But we are also called

To ENCOURAGE them

On their road to success and happiness

“Finally-brothers and sisters-REJOICE!

Strive for full restoration

ENCOURAGE one another

Be of one mind

Live in PEACE

And the God of love and peace

WILL BE WITH YOU”                                                         2 Corinthians 13:11

And so as Christians

We are NOT to be blinded

By our defensiveness

And our jealousy

We are to COMPREHEND

GOD'S LOVE AND COUNSEL

For when we do this

And ACKNOWLEDGE our own accomplishments

We can FEEL HAPPINESS

And fulfillment in ourselves

And STILL be happy for another

“First seek

The COUNSEL of the Lord”                                                    2 Chronicles 18:4

“COUNSEL and sound judgment

Are mine

I have insight-

I have power”                                                         Proverbs 8:14

And counsel and sound judgment

Are ours too

We NEVER need be defensive  

Or jealous of another's success 

IF we are content within ourselves

And proud of our own efforts

Dear Lord-WE PRAY

Help us ALWAYS

To be HAPPY for our brothers and sister in Christ 

And be content within ourselves

And with out own BEST EFFORTS

In Jesus' name

Robert P. Wallman

3-11-16    Ps     INSPIRED by LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE and by Phil Fox Rose

4-02 and 03-2022