Happy is He that has the God of Jehovah for his help, whose hope is in the Lord His God
Psalm 146:5
As there is but one God in Heaven above and on Earth beneath, so there is only one happiness for created beings, either in Heaven or Earth. This one God made our heart for Himself, and we can not rest, until we rest in Him. It is true that while we are in the vigor of youth and health; while our blood dances in our veins, while the world smiles upon us and we have all the conveniences, yea, superfluities of life, we frequently have pleasing dreams and enjoy a kind of happiness. But it can not continue, it flies away like a shadow, and even while it does it is not solid or substantial; it does not satisfy the soul. We still pant after something else, something that we have not. Give a man everything that this world can give and yet amidst our plenty something still to me, to thee to him is wanting. That something is neither more, nor less than the knowledge and love of God, without which no spirit can be happy, in Heaven or on Earth.
Devotions and Prayers of John Wesley, P38
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