A better saying than "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" would be "Honor, virtue and the pursuit of God". And ultimately, this would lead to
real happiness, real life and real liberty.
Seeking for happiness is not what brings happiness, but instead leads to hedonism and inevitably misery. Happiness isn't always the best way to be happy.
What I have found is that through suffering comes the ultimate joy; when you tap into that suffering and use it to help others who are also suffering comes a joy that is deeper and more fulfilling than any other joy.
The greatest form of liberty is used to serve one another by love. However, the "do what thou wilt" crowleyan liberty where you have the freedom to do whatever you want and use it to embrace the worst, leads to bondage.
Galatians 5:13 - For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Liberty is a privilege for the righteous.
Psalms 119:45 - And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
John Adam's rightly stated, "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
Of course, true life comes from pursuing God, because whoever seeks God will find him because the Lord will reveal himself to them and they will be led to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and get saved, thereby receiving eternal life.
Acts 17:26-27 - And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
John 11:25-26 - Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
Seeking for happiness is not what brings happiness, but instead leads to hedonism and inevitably misery. Happiness isn't always the best way to be happy.
What I have found is that through suffering comes the ultimate joy; when you tap into that suffering and use it to help others who are also suffering comes a joy that is deeper and more fulfilling than any other joy.
The greatest form of liberty is used to serve one another by love. However, the "do what thou wilt" crowleyan liberty where you have the freedom to do whatever you want and use it to embrace the worst, leads to bondage.
Galatians 5:13 - For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Liberty is a privilege for the righteous.
Psalms 119:45 - And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
John Adam's rightly stated, "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
Of course, true life comes from pursuing God, because whoever seeks God will find him because the Lord will reveal himself to them and they will be led to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and get saved, thereby receiving eternal life.
Acts 17:26-27 - And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
John 11:25-26 - Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
31-35, M
