Abundant Joy and Eternal Pleasures

Did you ever think it was ok to live life with abundant joy?   Did you ever think it was not sinful to seek pleasures?  The question is where do you seek them?  Every human being on the planet wants to be happy.  I have never come across anyone who is always seeking to be miserable and it they are I promise you for some strange reason and in some strange way—it pleases them.  The reality is we are all wanting to be happy in some way.  We also like to enjoy pleasure, we seek pleasure in a variety of ways, food, sex, relationships, sports, television, movies, music, and I could go on and on.  What we fail to understand sometimes is its ok to seek joy and pleasure, what matters is where and in what.  If we seek joy simply for the sake of joy it can become idolatry.  And if I seek pleasure simply for purely pleasure sake it too will become idolatry and it will eventually enslave me.  How do I escape idolatry and enslavement and still have joy and pleasures? 

The Psalmist answers this question like this.  “You reveal the path of life me; in Your presence is abundant joy; in Your right hand are eternal pleasures.” (Psalm 16:11)  Our ultimate joy and our ultimate pleasure can be found in God and in God’s glory.  It is in Him everything finds its purpose and meaning.  Through Him we can understand what joy really is and we can understand and truly experience pleasure as Christ lives through us. Maybe you have hit a rough patch or life has gotten you down, get on the path of life with God and enjoy Him.   

~PS