DO YOU KNOW HIM

“Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.”

Psalm 144:15 KJV

Pastor Ira F. Stanphill wrote a beautiful inspiring hymn.  It is one of my favorite hymns “Happiness is The Lord”.  I love the words in this hymn.  “Happiness is to know the Savior, Living a life within His favor, Having a change in my behavior, Happiness is the Lord.” 

When we are in the presence of Jesus we have fulness of joy and happiness is ours when we know Jesus.  We can be saved and not know Him.  To know people, we have to spend time with them.  Some of us don’t even know our parents and children because we don’t take the time that’s necessary to know them.

How much time do we spend with Jesus?  If we are too busy to talk to Him during the day, we are too busy and we need to rearrange our schedule.  If we have time to watch television, we have time to fellowship with Jesus.  I think we break His heart many times because we’re too busy to spend time with Him.

Are we living a life within His favor?  Is there a change in our behavior since we’ve been saved?  Does our family and friends see the difference Jesus has made in our heart and life since we invited Jesus into our heart to be our personal Saviour?  May God help us to live a life within His favor.

Joanne Lowe

January 28, 2015