The Happy God

When we don’t believe all the promises of God, we won’t receive the full measure of the Spirit. 

“Works” longs for the joy of being glorified as strong. “Faith” longs for the joy of seeing God glorified as strong. 

When he was in anguish, Jesus rested his soul in the sovereign wisdom of God. 

From eternity, God has been self-sufficiently happy in himself. And because he has no needs of his own, he is gloriously free to meet ours. 

When you feel divided and distant from God, feed your soul the glorious truth of the gospel. 

Friends, our Gospel for this Sunday is one of the great passages of the New Testament—namely, the Beatitudes from the fifth chapter of Matthew. "Beatitudo" just means happiness, and the one thing we all want is to be happy. Well, here is the Son of God telling us how—so let’s pay ... Show More