We who fear God are truly blessed. When our life's journey is following in the steps of Jesus, we are blessed. Happiness and joy are the rewards we are given for staying close to God.
We may not even have a spouse or children, but these are a metaphor for the sense of fulfillment we will have as believers in the one God. Not that we are to be afraid of God, but so in awe of his majesty that we choose to do his will as best we can.
Yes, we sometimes fail, and when we do, we remember our feelings of wellbeing when we do what is right, and so we quickly repent and beg his forgiveness and so regain those feelings that we had lost.
God wants us to be happy on earth as well as to enjoy eternal happiness in heaven. Why does it seem so hard to keep the commandments? Why do we keep going our own way instead of God's way?
As much as we say that God's ways are more important, the easy pleasures of this world take our focus off what awaits us and we settle for the temporary pleasures.
It's not that God doesn't want us to be happy here, as I said, he does; but God also knows the ways of the world and knows that many of the temporary pleasures here will leave us unhappy and unfulfilled.
Just think of the pleasures of a good meal and a nice glass of wine. But, if we overdo on either the good meal or the amount of wine we have drunk, we are not fulfilled, we feel ill, and if we really overdid, we won't remember the good meal or wine, just the sick feeling we suffered.
The same goes for other pleasures as well. Some pleasures are called guilty pleasures for a reason! God is trying to help us find true happiness, after all, he wrote the rule book.
