Happily Ever After

Happily ever after is something we dream of as children and actually believe in for a while, but where does it go?  Living happily ever after is just a given in the movies and children’s books, but the image gets more clouded and the glass slipper sometimes seems broken as life happens and reality sets in.  Does it have to be that way?  Are we stuck living in a world that controls us?  Is happily ever after a reality or just a dream?

His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, ⁴ by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. (2 Peter 1:3-5)

Peter is telling us that we can have happily ever after.  God has given it to us, but do we accept it?  I spent many years seeking my happily ever after.  I bet we all have.  I looked in a lot of places thinking it was just around the next corner or just beyond the horizon, but it was there waiting all along.  You see, if we try to find our happiness it just seems to avoid us, but when we allow God to lead us to our happiness we see it was perfect timing all along.  God knows our happily ever after before we are born and plabs it out for us… we just have to allow him to work.  “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. ¹² Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.” (Jeremiah 29:11-12)  God has plans for you!  How special is that? 

God gives us divine appointments each day.  He sends things our way, but he also gives us a choice to act on those things or to let them pass us by.  We must be ready or we miss out.  I can’t tell you how many blessings that I have let slip right through my fingers because I wasn’t paying attention to God.  I’ll bet you have had some moments like that too, haven’t you?  It’s time for us to wake up!  I have been blessed beyond measure because I have begun to look for God working in my life.  I would be amiss if I didn’t mention the blessing my family is to me.  They have been one of life’s true blessings.  There are others out there that are blessing my life immensely now. (You know who you are!) And to think I might have slept right through these amazing blessings had I not been awakened out of my sleep.  We can’t go through life just dreaming about happily ever after, we have to wake up and LIVE happily ever after.  The only way to do this is through the power of Jesus working in our lives.  “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”(John 14:6)

“Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.”(Ephesians 5:14)  Let’s wake up and begin our happily ever after.

God Bless!