😍Joy 🥰

 The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

I read a story of a man who was searching for happiness. What can or could make him happy, joyful? So he made himself a list thinking if he were to acquire these things that for sure would make him happy. Here is his list. 

First was love. If he could just find that right person that would love him for who he was he thought that would make him happy. 

Second was enjoyment if he could find that which brought joy into his life. 

Third was contentment surely love and enjoyment would help him be content. Fourth was financial prosperity. 

If these 4 things would bring happiness into our lives then I would agree why not pursue them!  Let's look at love not from a worldly view but from a biblical view. 

Do we know what love is? Many think they do but they are wrong. Have you or have you ever heard someone say “I don’t Love you anymore”? Know why they say that? Because they never knew what love was. Love is more than words spoken. I called a person I didn’t even know about a small job they wanted me to do for them. The phone rang a number of times then came the answering machine which asked me to leave a message to which I did. Now at the end of the message this person said thank you so much and I just want you to know I love you! That my friend isn’t love. The world we live in has cheapened the word love to a greeting like have a good day. The word love goes much deeper than that. To Love is to give without expecting anything in return. When I first saw my wife to be; although I didn’t know that at the time. My eye saw her and I liked what I saw, that wasn’t love that was just like. Then we went out and I liked hearing her talk but that still was love that was just talk. Then I asked her some questions about what she wanted and I liked what I heard. You might say that love was budding. Then I asked her to marry me and she said yes; oh happy day. We got married and began our journey together but real love had not fully developed. The real storms of this life had not hit us yet. How will we do when they do hit? I could spend hours writing about the storms that have rocked our world but I won’t bore you with the details. Had I never learned what real love was then our marriage would have crashed. Love is giving, never expecting anything in return. As I have written many times before, I want my wife to be happy and I give myself to her because I love her. Know what? She loves me for that. Why do I do that? Here is why. 

Ephesians 5:25 (KJV) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Treat your wife like that and you will never hear the words “I don’t love you any more.”  Ephesians 5:28 (KJV) So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. 

Loving my wife the way the Bible teaches by giving myself to her. Has given me joy and contentment as well as prosperity (gain in any thing good or desirable) in ways money could never give.