Temporal Happiness or Eternal Joy

Encouragement.

C.S.Lewis said, “God’s highest agenda is not your immediate happiness. He is much more committed to your eternal joy, your spiritual growth and the condition of your heart. Trust Him even when you can’t feel Him. Believe in Him even when He doesn’t make sense. Follow Him even though you are not sure where He is leading you. Something greater is going on than the trial you find yourself caught up in. All moments in life are key moments. Count each one as joy, no matter what you are facing, no matter what your circumstance may be, because it is in those moments that God is carrying you, uplifting you and sustaining you. Isaiah 45:2 says,” I will go before you and will level the mountains; I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron. I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know I am the Lord, the God of Israel who summons you by name.”