How to Live a Happy Life?

How to Live a Happy Life?

May 20, 2018

By Chenzhuo

Time flies like an arrow, and years pass in an eyeblink.

Having sent away the last flake of snow, the year 2018 tiptoes in …

Standing before the landmark of a new year, I couldn’t help looking back to the way behind me:

How was it that I got it through?

Many things have quietly faded away, away from my heart;

Many people have receded from my memory;

Only my knowledge of God grows increasingly clear in my experience.

It is God who makes me learn to face failures and setbacks calmly,

Makes me grow from being ignorant to mature in suffering.

It is God who lets me know beauty and ugliness, good and evil,

Lets me know how to be a human,

And lets me know that only by obeying the Creator’s sovereignty and arrangements

Can we live a bright and happy life.

I’m grateful to the Almighty—the Creator!

Go back to the time when I was in the flush of my youth: I, being young, vigorous, and self-assured, outlined my beautiful blueprint, firmly certain that “one can create a bright future with his own two hands.” I worked hard day and night and believed that someday I would realize my dream of getting ahead in life.

Time passed away when I clawed my way, yet I still didn’t become successful in my career. By contraries, what accompanied me were always setbacks and failures, resignation and bitterness. The sweat of my hard work seemed like nothing in front of the power-for-money deals and nepotism. Perfect mastery of technology though I had, it could never compare with my colleagues’ fawning words and dirty appointments with the leaders. After some struggle, I went off in a huff.

As a proud person, I didn’t give in to fate: The faith of “creating a beautiful future with one’s own two hands” once again supported me to do business on my own. And I was firmly convinced that I could accomplish something.

Nevertheless, the cruel reality shattered my dream once again. Financial crisis erupted and my company went bankrupt; my achievement was just a flash in the pan. Success still didn’t smile on me. I was heart-broken; I was desperate. In great pain I looked up to the sky and sighed deeply: Why, when I have painstakingly worked, couldn’t I realize my dream? Why is chance always hiding from me? Why are my skies always gray without a flicker of light? Could it be that this is my fate? No… Who can give me the answer? Who can come to save me?

Unexpectedly, in the East there shone forth a brilliant radiance, expelling the darkness and bringing the brightness. Along with it came the motherly care and love, “When you are weary and when you begin to feel the desolation of this world, do not be perplexed, do not cry. Almighty God, the Watcher, will embrace your arrival any time. He is watching by your side, waiting for you to turn back. He is waiting for the day your memory suddenly recovers” (“The Sighing of the Almighty”). These refreshing words, like a warm flow, moistened my heart and comforted my wounded soul. I eagerly sought for the source of these words, and I found it. It’s Him—the Master of mankind’s fate and the Source of life of all the creatures: the almighty God—the Creator. It turned out that He is always watching by my side, waiting silently, for my memory to recover, for me to return to His side and enjoy the nourishment of His love.

I, a prodigal son, finally came back home, back before God, and relished in the truth of life bestowed by God. God says, “The fate of man is controlled by the hands of God. You are incapable of controlling yourself: Despite always rushing and busying about for himself, man remains incapable of controlling himself. If you could know your own prospects, if you could control your own fate, would you still be a creature? … The destination of man is in the hands of the Creator, so how could man control himself?” “For one sees that when one does not comprehend fate, when one does not understand God’s sovereignty, when one gropes forward willfully, staggering and tottering, through the fog, the journey is too difficult, too heartbreaking. So when people recognize God’s sovereignty over human fate, the smart ones choose to know it and accept it, to bid farewell to the painful days when they tried to build a good life with their own two hands, instead of continuing to struggle against fate and pursue their so-called life goals in their own manner. When one has no God, when one cannot see Him, when one cannot clearly recognize God’s sovereignty, every day is meaningless, worthless, miserable. Wherever one is, whatever one’s job is, one’s means of living and the pursuit of one’s goals bring one nothing but endless heartbreak and irrelievable suffering, such that one cannot bear to look back. Only when one accepts the Creator’s sovereignty, submits to His orchestrations and arrangements, and seeks true human life, will one gradually break free from all heartbreak and suffering, shake off all the emptiness of life.”

Gradually, I came to know: Our fates are controlled by the hands of God, and we are incapable of controlling them by ourselves; if we leave God’s watching and live under Satan’s domain, all that we will get are sorrow, disease, trouble and death. Once I believed that “Fate of man is controlled by his own hands,” and that “Man can build a wonderful tomorrow just with his own two hands.” Yet the reality repeatedly countered my conceptions: The more I wanted to change my fate, to stand out and succeed through my hard work, the more setbacks and failures I suffered; the less I admitted defeat or gave in to fate, the more I was defeated. And I firmly believed that I would do something successful by my ability, but when the global economic crisis struck, my company went bankrupt and I fell into the lowest point in my life. … God’s words nourished my wounded soul, letting me know that man’s fate is controlled by God’s hands, and that only by obeying God’s sovereignty and arrangements can we gain peace, joy, and a liberated life.

God’s words healed my ailing heart like a good remedy, and they reignited hope for my life. When I was willing to commit everything into God’s hands, to obey His sovereignty and arrangements, I felt the real peace and joy in my heart. God says, “Because the essence of God is holy, that means that only through God can you walk the bright, right road through life; only through God can you know the meaning of life, only through God can you live out a real life, possess the truth, know the truth, and only through God can you obtain life from the truth. Only God Himself can help you shun evil and deliver you from the harm and control of Satan. Besides God, no one and nothing can save you from the sea of suffering so that you suffer no longer: This is determined by the essence of God.”

After some ups and downs, I no longer drift, because I have found the reliance and direction of my life. I have truly experienced that one cannot control his own fate or the outcome of everything, no matter whether he is a scientist, a migrant worker, a dignitary, or an ordinary person. Only by obeying God’s sovereignty and arrangements can one live a bright and happy life.

All the glory be to almighty God!

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