MUD SLAPPING HAPPY
Psalm 118:24 (KJV) “This
is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.”
Happy is a choice. Visitors we had at The Fountain this
weekend reported we were a happy church. Lord knows I have preached a lot on
happy the nine years I have pastored here.
Happy is not something that falls out of the sky and lands on you
because you were in the way that day. Paul said to King Agrippa, “Get a Grip!” no, not
really; he said, “‘I think myself happy,’ king Agrippa, because I shall answer
for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of
the Jews” (Acts 26:2 KJV).
Once again, happy is a choice, we must think ourselves
there. Every day is a glad day with
Jesus.
“Joy in the morning,
joy at noon up, joy in the evening too – serving Jesus is a joy not a chore
Joy when lay down, joy when wake, joy all the day through –
serving Jesus is a joy not a chore”
As the house of God we are to be “mud slapping happy.” We are
lively stones (not dead stones) in this house built up as a habitation for the
Lord. Happy to serve Jesus, happy to serve each other, and happy to serve those
around us; we are mud slapping happy. Happy is the mud holding these bricks
together in this house. So happy we have no mind to be anywhere else than to be
with Jesus.
Happy is being content, content with God and content with
yourself. So we say to all the King Agrippa’s out there – “We think ourselves
happy.”
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