August 28: Delight and Goodwill.
Short-Lived Laughter and Mirth.
Even in laughter the heart may ache, and rejoicing may end in grief.--Proverbs 14:13, NIV
NO REAL JOY can be found in the path forbidden by Him who knows what is best, and who plans for the good of His creatures. The path of transgression leads to misery and destruction.--Patriarchs and Prophets, 600.
Happiness that is sought from selfish motives, outside of the path of duty, is ill-balanced, fitful, and transitory; it passes away, and the soul is filled with loneliness and sorrow.--Steps to Christ, 124.
The continual craving for pleasurable amusements reveal the deep longings of the soul. But those who drink at this fountain of worldly pleasure will find their soul-thirst still unsatisfied. They are deceived; they mistake mirth for happiness; and when the excitement ceases many sink down into the depths of despondency and despair. O what madness, what folly, to forsake the "Fountain of living waters" for the "broken cisterns" of worldly pleasure!--Messages to Young People, 370.
For my people have committed two evils:
they have forsaken me,
the fountain of living water,
and dug out cisterns for themselves,
cracked cisterns
that can hold no water.
--Jeremiah 2:13, NRSV
Short-Lived Laughter and Mirth.
Even in laughter the heart may ache, and rejoicing may end in grief.--Proverbs 14:13, NIV
NO REAL JOY can be found in the path forbidden by Him who knows what is best, and who plans for the good of His creatures. The path of transgression leads to misery and destruction.--Patriarchs and Prophets, 600.
Happiness that is sought from selfish motives, outside of the path of duty, is ill-balanced, fitful, and transitory; it passes away, and the soul is filled with loneliness and sorrow.--Steps to Christ, 124.
The continual craving for pleasurable amusements reveal the deep longings of the soul. But those who drink at this fountain of worldly pleasure will find their soul-thirst still unsatisfied. They are deceived; they mistake mirth for happiness; and when the excitement ceases many sink down into the depths of despondency and despair. O what madness, what folly, to forsake the "Fountain of living waters" for the "broken cisterns" of worldly pleasure!--Messages to Young People, 370.
For my people have committed two evils:
they have forsaken me,
the fountain of living water,
and dug out cisterns for themselves,
cracked cisterns
that can hold no water.
--Jeremiah 2:13, NRSV
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