Posted on 10/28/2021 12:24:12 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief” (Proverbs 28:14).
You should be happy if you go to a good Bible-believing church, and the preacher manages to get right in your life, and in your face, about three times a week and just correct you in front of the Lord and everybody. You are a happy man or should be. And when you come to one of those times where seems like you've been down, and you’ve been pummeled pretty good by events in life, and you realize after a time that this is God getting your attention, He's got his thumb in your chest and he is doing some serious business with you. You ought to be a happy man or lady. Right? The Bible says you should be. Happy is the man. Right?
If all people want to do anymore is be happy, then they ought to take some advice from the word of God. Psalm 144:14-15 is talking about the blessing of God: “That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets. Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.” We can be happy that our God is not Allah. Amen? We can be happy that our God is not one of those 325 million Hindu gods. Right? We can be happy that God is our Lord.
“Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God” (Psalms 146:5).
Look at that phrasing there. “Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help.” Now, I am in a peculiar situation, and I am in the same situation you are. I am a man that has the God of Jacob. So, he was not even originally my God. Jacob cast him off. I am talking about his right, and I kind of got in on it from around the corner; but the Bible says happy is such a man whose God is the god of Jacob. I am sure glad that I have the God of Jacob to my help. Better than the god of the Druids, or of my ancestors back in Great Britain somewhere, or your ancestors in Germany, or in Scandinavia somewhere. A man ought to be happy to have the God of Jacob.
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