Every Drop in the Cup of Happiness
A YOUNG man in New York has recently inherited $30,000,000. He says: "I am going to drink every drop in the cup of happiness that life can offer me, but no one is going to be shocked by what I do, or how I do it." The young man will find that $30,000,000, or any sum, for that matter, is not sufficient to buy happiness. Happiness may not be purchased. The individual who has not found the Christ of the Bible, knows nothing of real joy. True happiness may only be found with those who know they have laid hold on eternal life, and eternal life comes only through the Christ of God. How vain are the pursuits of those pleasures that money can buy! A little floating germ that may only be seen through the microscope might meet this young man and make him a life-long invalid, or possibly bring him to a very early grave, and his money could not prevent it. But there is happiness that may be had without money and without price. Hear this divine call: "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? harken diligently unto Me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Incline your ear, and come unto Me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David." Isa. 55:1-3.