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True Happiness
“Behold, we count them happy which endure”
(James 5:11).
Viktor Emil Frankl was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, as well as a Holocaust survivor. The only reason he was not murdered along with his fellow Jews was that he was appointed personal physician to several Nazi officers. After being freed from a concentration camp at the end of World War II he wrote:
“The reason so many people are unhappy and seeking help to cope with life is that they fail to understand what human existence is all about. Until we recognize that life is not just something to be enjoyed, but rather is a task that each of us is assigned, we’ll never find meaning in our lives and we’ll never be truly happy.”
The Bible talks a great deal about the meaning of life and true happiness. Life is full of ups and downs and unexpected twists and turns. The Apostle Paul found that, and wrote: “As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing” (2 Corinthians 6:10).
For the believer, the secret of happiness is to live for Christ, even when things are tough, realizing that He has a task for each of us to perform.
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