The believer's happiness

(James Smith "The Loved One Absent" 1860)

"Oh, that I knew where I might find HIM!" Job 23:3

The believer's happiness consists very much in the presence of God, and a sense of His love. His happiness is not in place, orcircumstances, or friends — but in God Himself as revealed in Jesus.
Anywhere, 
at any time,
in any condition, 
alone or in any company,
we can be happy — if we realize that God is present, and can enter into communion with Him.

Real religion always . . .
  centers in God, 
  feasts on God, and 
  is satisfied with God alone. 

The teachings of the Holy Spirit brings us away from other sources of peace and satisfaction — to God alone. And in God, as made known in Jesus, we find . . .
  all we want,  
  all we wish, 
  all we can enjoy!
"You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand!" Psalm 16:11. Oh, blessed thought! Having been brought to set our hearts on God, to find our happiness in God — soon, very soon, we shall enjoy His perfect, perpetual presence; and shall never more sigh, or cry, "Oh, that I knew where I might find HIM!"

"And so we will be with the Lord forever!" 1 Thessalonians 4:17