Certified So: Redefining Happiness
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Summary: Rest

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hy is wearing

His yoke

Of serving others

Said to be so easy?Matthew 11:28-29

And why

Are bearing all the burdens

That He spoke of

Deemed to be so restful

And so light?Matthew 5:38-48

It's because we don't

Provide the food

That feeds the multitude.Luke 9:12-17

And it's because we don't

Supply the seed of faith

That makes us think

It's even possible.

God does!Luke 11:9-13Ephesians 3:14-21

All we have to do

Is freely give away

The tiny seeds of hope

That God so freely gives us.

And always seek to sow

The little seeds of happiness

That God Himself dispenses—Ecclesiastes 11:6Hosea 10:12

Even when it seems like

Our faith is in decline

And hope

And happiness

Are very hard to find.

For just as surely

As we do,

We will just as surely find

That the reason why we have

An innate ability

To give so overflowing

And so endlesslyJohn 4:6-14

Is because it doesn't

Come from within.

It comes

From God!John 3:1-81 John 2:28-29