Scripture Notes: Happy (Psalm 146)

Everyone is searching for happiness, looking high and low, here and there. Many people do not find it. Some think they do only to be disappointed when it quickly fades. Then they chase after the next possibility, and the cycle continues. Yet they never discover the happiness they long for.

Psalm 146 tells us where we can find true and lasting happiness. “Happy is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God” (Psalm 146:5). Real happiness comes from God, from relying on God, from hoping in God, from believing in God, from loving God, from putting God at the center of our lives. There really is no other way to be truly happy in this life. Everything else fades away. Only God remains. 

It is as simple as that (although not easy to do). When we put the true God front and center in our lives, we will be truly happy.