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Does being blessed always mean we are happy? Is there scripture that does or does not support this? Blessed sounds like we should be happy, doesnt it?
(Updated 01/30/11 @ 12:30 CDT)
Nonni,
That is an excellent question, and since I am dealing with insomnia tonight, I think I’ll take a stab at it.
I’m going to address the Greek meaning of this word. The word “blessed” as used in the famous sermon on the Mount passage of Matthew chapter 5, is the Greek word: makários (G3107); fem. makaría, neut. makárion, adj.
According to Spiro Zodhiates (one of the most prominent Greek translators, who is Greek himself; yet more importantly is that Spiro is an individual I admire and respect as a believer), states concerning this word:
A prose form of the poetic mákar (n.f.), blessed one. Blessed, possessing the favor of God, that state of being marked by fullness from God. It indicates the state of the believer in Christ (Mat_5:3-11, “Blessed . . . for my sake”; Luk_6:20-22, “Blessed . . . for the Son of man’s sake”), said of one who becomes a partaker of God’s nature through faith in Christ (2Pe_1:4). The believer is indwelt by the Holy Spirit because of Christ and as a result should be fully satisfied no matter the circumstances. Makários differs from the word “happy” in that the person is happy who has good luck (from the root hap meaning luck as a favorable circumstance). To be makários, blessed, is equivalent to having God’s kingdom within one’s heart (Mat_5:3, Mat_5:10). Aristotle contrasts makários to endeés (G1729), the needy one. Makários is the one who is in the world yet independent of the world. His satisfaction comes from God and not from favorable circumstances.
Deriv.: makarízō (G3106), to declare blessed.
Syn.: eulogētós (G2128), blessed, well-spoken of; eulogēménos, blessed; eulogéō (G2127), to eulogize, bless, thank.
No Ant.: talaípōros (G5005), miserable, wretched; eleeinós (G1652), pitiable, miserable.
We see from this treatment of the word “bless” that it is not necessarily synonymous with the word “happy,” as many well-intentioned teachers state. You see Nonni, wherein in the English translation of the word “bless,” we don’t understand that this translation comes from different Greek words which have different meanings than the singular meaning it has in the English, which would seem to coincide at least with the idea of being happy, or prosperous. However, the Greek words for “bless” are diverse, having different meanings.
As is seen above, the word that is used primarily in the in the book of Matthew concerning the word “bless,” has more to do with the aspect of being satisfied or content, which is actually much more important than being happy.
If you take our English word: “happy,” you must understand that it is a derivative of the word “happen,” or “happening.” The word happy has to do with outside circumstance, the things that happened to us that make us feel really good, from the outside which is quite different than the biblical word for “joy,” which is derived from an inward satisfaction and contentment that is not temporary.
By its very makeup to be happy is a temporary state based upon outward conditions whereas joy is a permanent status of inward contentment that is much more profitable than temporary happiness based on the outside conditions of things or people around us.(
By no means am I stating that God would have us be miserable – He loves His children and desires us to have inward joy, as well as outward happiness in life, yet never if they disqualify His training that He’s putting us through, which can be hard to take; or for those that live for these worldly pleasures. He wants to be loved for Himself, not what he can give people).
There is a another Greek translator by the name of Thayer who many teachers use in Bible translation. Thayer connects happiness with blessedness quite often unfortunately. However, I don’t trust Thayer anymore because I have found out that he was not a true Christian. He did not believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ, the atoning work of the death of Jesus Christ for our salvation, he did not hold that the Bible was inspired word of God, the Trinity, or what we would call salvation by faith alone in Christ, according to his own writings. There are many times that Thayer does a good job of translating; yet when it comes to important issues I don’t trust him how can we trust somebody that doesn’t believe that Jesus is God, when he’s translating words that deal with Christ; any more than we can trust when he translates a word like blessed, wherein many Christian translators go the extra mile and defined a different Greek words which have different meanings, which Thayer doesn’t do. He’s lazy many times and gives one translation for an English word, which has multiple Greek words but minded with diverse meanings. I’m telling you this because there’s a lot of well-meaning people that will tell you that bless, means to be happy in its based upon Thayer’s work, which is an error. This is why I am giving you the names of the translators I’m using, because this stuff is important – and if somebody disagrees with what I’m saying, you can at least tell them what the source is.
Concerning other Greek words which are translated into the English word “bless,” or “blessed;” Spiro Zodhiates, points out the fact that in the book of the Hebrew, the word has to do more with “speaking well of somebody,” or “giving someone praise.” The book of Mark uses this same Greek word, which holds the same meaning. The book of Luke uses both of the above-mentioned definition of the word.
Now there is a Greek word which has to more to do with happiness, it is the Greek word: Makarismos (G3108) [I am listing the numbers of the word so that you can personally look them up if you have a strong screen concordance, or a nether type of “word study” or dictionary - on the teaching website, on page part 1 of the “something to think about” page: which is entitled: “Rightly Dividing the Word of God” there is a listing of biblical resources that you can use to defined words as I have. I go into a breakdown of the grammar, parsing the verbs and nouns which is more difficult, yet yields much more insight - this you won't be able to do with almost all Christian resources, without studing the Greek first. However you can validate what I've said above - which is what Spiro has writen with any of the Bible dictionaries, lexicons, or other Biblical helps or resources].
This particular Greek word, Makarismos is used in the following versus, which will help you to understand when the Bible is talking about been fortunate, which can be – but not always referring to happiness, concerning things that happen to us – and more about what you're talking about.
“Even as David also describeth the blessedness [G3108] of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,” (Rom 4:6)
“Cometh this blessedness [G3108] then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.” (Rom 4:9)
“Where is then the blessedness [G3108] ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.” (Gal 4:15)
Do you see how there is only a few Scriptures in the New Testament (there are more than just these) which use the word “bless” as in “happiness,” this type of expression which deals with the outward circumstance we find ourselves within. A large majority of the passages use the first used above for “bless” in the NT, which concerns “joy,” rather than the word for happiness.
There are other places that randomly use another word which is translated into the English word bless, different than the 3 above which would mean happiness such as: Acts 3:25; Galatians 3:8.
Now enough of the technical side, let me speak as a counselor and attempt to answer what I believe is the heart of your question.
Man was not created specifically to be happy. Man was created to glorify God, and sometimes we glorify God by enduring hardship and going through hard times. I don’t like this, but it’s the truth there are many preachers out there that say that man was made to be fulfilled, yet there is no Scripture for it. There’s many preachers out there that say that man was made for fellowship with God, and there are Scriptures which support this idea; yet not as the primary reason for man’s creation, but one which profits both God and man.
In Isaiah 43:7, we see why God created man.
“Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.” (Isa 43:7)
This seems very narcissistic of God, making something for Himself, to glorify Himself; but even asking this question is really ridiculous because God is God because He’s the boss, not because He fits into our pre-determined definition of what God is. We are lucky that He’s a loving righteous God. God is God because of power, not because of love and not because of righteousness.
These are attributes that God has, but they do not give Him the power to do what only God can do.
Yet, this is where we build our faith because it is His power to take care of us, to fulfill the kind of blessing He wants for us – that of joy. That internal feeling of contentment to know that we are loved and appreciated, not because we deserve it. But because of who He is. You see there are times in my life where I don’t deserve anyone’s love – yet God still loves me. When everyone else has forsake me, God is still there. This is the kind of contentment, the inward joy; which is much more valuable than outward happiness.
Happiness will come and go, but joy is a lifetime fulfillment. We glorify God by trusting Him, by having faith in Him; and we can do this because He has the power to protect us, to take care of us. Yet, there are times where people died serving Him, where they are burned at the stake. So the question is where is the joy in that, where is the happiness in that.
You see, if all we do is keep our eyes upon this earthly existence, this 70 years on this dry ground – then no, I guess we are not always happy.
But if we really believed that we were made by God and are therefore eternal, and we put our eyes on tomorrow, on eternity, this is where we receive our joy, even amongst the tears of what happens around us and to us. There are many times that because of my own bad choices, I am unhappy; yet it is joy to know that there is one who I cannot see, who always loves me even when it doesn’t feel like it; who will be there on the other side of death’s door to welcome me as His child – this is why we must spend time in God’s Word to remind us of these facts.
The hell that you may be going through right now, in most cases is temporary; though temporary can be years. And please understand I’m not being unfeeling, the Bible says that God catches every one of your tears in a bottle (Psalms 56:8). He does this because your tears have value to Him, He does not take your suffering for granted, yet He always sees the big picture – eternity.
There are valleys, and their or mountain tops that we will experience in our walk with Him, in our lives. The valley is dusty and dry, such as where Moses spent 40 years being re-trained; after having spent 40 years in luxury and happiness. During this second 40 years he led around a bunch of dumb sheep, according to his prior training sheep were defiled, ignorant, smelly, animals. However, it was for God’s glory that Moses would lead the children of Israel, yet he would never have been prepared if he would never went through the misery of that second 40 years in the valley desert.
Moses had the first 40 years in luxury and happiness, the second 40 years in the desert learning to be a shepherd; and the last 40 years doing the work of a shepherd – all for God’s glory, trusting and having faith in God to do the unbelievable. You know where Moses died, on top of the mountain, overlooking the promise land – which he could not inner.
Do you know why it’s important to understand that there are mountains, as well as valleys that we go through. Psalms talks about the blessedness of the mountain deer, who have an extra due claw for climbing high mountain ranges. The reason why mountaintops are so important (Eden was on a mountaintop, Jesus always went and prayed at mountaintops, mountaintops have always been a place that God would meet man – Nimrod tried to build HIS OWN mountain to God, Babel), the reason why mountains are important is that mountaintops give us a perspective of things we normally don’t see – it is a closer view of what God see’s.
As a teenager, I used to go to a Christian winter and summer camp, and I would have such a spiritual experience, it was great. However, as is the case in most Christian summer camp’s, once I got back down to the valley, the spiritual things would seem to wear off, and I would become unspiritual, self-serving, and dry. It was the mountaintop that was always invigorating, it is the mountain top that God lets us visit in order to see what He would have us to see, to give us perspective. Isn’t it amazing that when Lucifer tempted Christ, where did he take Him – up high, on the Temple pillar, and on a mountaintop.
Nonni, I’m sorry if you are going through a dry desert right now. However, even in the desert God will supply pools of water, oasis.’ God has not promised to take us out of valleys, but to be with us as we go through them (Psa. 23:1-6). This is where the joy comes in. I know these words seemed comfortless, but it is in seeking God that you will grow in joy, even if what happens to you seems to strip you of that happiness, He is still there with you in the “valley of the shadow of death.” Yet. we must remember that we receive joy by being in Christ, and in His Word.
I’m going to leave you with some Scriptures which speak about faith wherein prayers are answered in some cases, and also where in faith some prayers were not answered. However, the conclusion of the author of the book of Hebrews is that even though some did not receive what they had desired, it was their faith that got them into eternity with God, beyond what was happening around them.
I pray that God gives you happiness, as well as the joy. Your brother in Christ, Brent
“And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.” (Heb 11:32-40)
However, I think it would be better if I leave you with this:
“A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.” (Psa 23:1-6)
Brent
Thanks Brent, I once heard someone ask this question, but I have never heard anyone answer it, nor have I ever heard a sermon on it.
Nonni,
(Updated ~ 01/31/2011 @ 12:35 CDT)
Believe it or not this is the longest response I’ve ever written. It may seem like a harsh answer, but it is never something I would ever present cavalierly, or sternly.
Of A Personal Note:
Time does not permit for me to speak more fully of the unhappiness that I have felt during my life. Of fighting bone-marrow disease, having surgery to remove cancer, of chronic back pain where they wanted to do fusions (a miracle in which I was healed, some day I will talk about it – to God’s glory), the loss of the child to SIDS, the experiential knowledge of what true isolation and confinement can do to the human soul. The loss of so many relationships, and the knowledge that many of these losses were because of my own selfish choices to engage in my own addictions, which is simply self-centeredness. It is much easier when we can blame others for our grief.
I mention some of this to my shame, yet I present these personal and private sorrows, pains and tribulation for a reason. It is because presenting the above teaching concerning the hardship that can happen to the believer has personally caused me much pain. Those false prophets that present what is termed incorrectly as “Word of Faith” doctrine do so in great comfort because they receive the benefit on a personal level of those followers that would give them money. The lie that they present is that, their message is not based upon their needs or their profit; but that the message is meant to the still a blessing upon the giver.
This is a doctrine straight from the pit of hell, which teaches people to be presumptuous concerning God, making God a servant rather than the master. They say it is heretical to ask anything of God according to his will. They say that God is already pronounced in his word that they can have what they asked for, and not doing so is a lack of faith.
They also teach that if you do not receive what you asked for it is because you have not exercised faith. This presumptuous self-serving heresy, is an easy message for the false prophets to teach because they personally enjoy its benefit. I have presented some of my personal tragedies, so that I can speak from a place of experience concerning the cost of this message.
Yet, the benefit of the message is much greater than its cost. To have a relationship with Jesus Christ wherein I understand, and fully believe; that God is in 100 percent control of my life, even if evil things happen. This is what biblical faith is, it is a relationship contingent upon the foundation of trust, it holds confidence in what is believed to the extent of motivating changing behavior.
What these false prophets do is teach people to believe in what they see, without the confidence based upon God’s Word to change their behavior because of what is believed changes their perception in their life. This is why it is so important that the child of God understands that during their maturing in their walk with God, that it is not going be an easy life. If this was not so that Jesus would have stated in Matthew 7:15:
“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” (Mat 7:13-15)
One thing to also note about this passage, which speaks about “few there be that find it” in reference to how few people will actually be saved. If the message was easy, and salvation entails nothing but gaining prosperity, health, and happiness; then these words are in vain.
It should also be noticed that concerning how few obtain salvation that Jesus’ next statement is a warning concerning false prophets that come in as wolves in sheep’s clothing. He connects the idea that the majority will follow these false teachers that act like sheep into destruction – but why. Some would postulate that is because the false teachers teach nothing but prosperity and blessing which the masses love to hear, whereas true believers, who are few; understand that becoming a Christian is not a user-friendly situation. Which is why Christ also says that his followers must lose their own life for his sake, in order to inner into the narrow gate; as recorded in Matthew 10:34-39, which states:
“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.” (Mat 10:34-39)
How many goodhearted Christians attempt to witness by talking about how great it will be to be a Christian, and it will but in eternity; but not on this earth. They don’t even realize that they feed right into the false prophets narrative concerning becoming a Christian leads to prosperity, health, and wealth.
However, I will not leave you with just what seems to be negative; but what is the real blessedness which you ask about. It is the blessing of being children of God wherein we can trust Him even if He allows calamity, because He won’t never forsake us; even if that’s what it appears. Romans 8:31-39 are amongst the most valuable statements in the Bible for the child of God, which state:
“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Rom 8:31-39)
I understand that your question may only be a curious question, but I also know that many times questions are seated in the experience one is going through. My prayers are that if you are, you will experience an oasis from your troubles.
Brent
Brent, I have just finished reading your response, all I can say is wow…youve given me much to think about, to re-read….and ponder again in the morning…I think this will be my Sunday. Thank You….This was a curious question…but after reading your response, I can see how many of the things you responded with fit so perfectly within the confines of my life. So much is going on right now, and I am struggling with health issues, family issues, and other issues. I trusly appreciate you taking the time to research this lengthy response…I hope you get some rest my friend. Nonni God Bless You.
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First off concerning the mindless visitors. I am new to blogging and have been unaware up until recently of comment spam. However a few days ago I went back and disabled the URL (leaving the email links intact) of many of the comments as it became obvious to me that they were friends for spam. I’ve done the same thing with yours concerning your website, incompany. I admit that part of the problem is having worked in law enforcement and the prison system I understanding far too well how evil people can be in their attempt to gain financially.
And the Internet is an excellent place for this evil (instead of the word evil I could just say wrong, or even sin; however, one major characteristic of evil as compared to the others is its habitual preoccupation with rationalizing its behavior. Sin is easily repented of, where evil does not do so and must maintain a façade of justification) to grow. The idea of creating greater exposure on a search engine by flooding blog sites with comment spam displays a lack of morality that is starting to become normal at this time in history.
The justification that there is a greater good that is achieved by being dishonest and completely fabricating this kind of distortion displays a warped sense of discernment that is increasing at an abnormal rate; it is also activity that a true believer can not justify. As of last night, due to further research I have come to the conclusion that I will not allow any more of these type of comments to approved on this blog site.
I take my own time in answering each one in reading it in attempting to determine if it is legitimate or not. Yet, the people that do this kind of thing don’t care about what it cost someone like myself, the hours I could be spending on research concerning God’s kingdom as opposed to wasting time so that they can get a better rating on Google.
Part of my confusion has been that I understand that when you purchase a domain you can also purchase a e-mail account, and I thought that if you send an e-mail it might be possible to link to the web site.
However, at this point I’ve come to the conclusion that this is an incorrect summation. So I’m not going to waste anymore time or energy on this kind of spam, attempting to determine whose legitimate who’s not.
From now on if a comment does not have direct indication that the individual sincerely read my post, I will not allow it, nor respond to it.
I don’t know if you are a comment spammer (or even worse yet the kind of company that produces these type of services – if you are, I’m curious how God feels about the situation, of how many naïve Christians have wasted their time and energy simply to profit someone with no scruples. Yet rather they claim to be a Christian or not maybe someday they’ll have to explain how they wasted some of God’s resources on their own attempt to gain filthy Luker) because of the connection to your website, but on face value of what you said I choose not to believe so of you; and wish to sincerely thank you for reinforcing the idea that there are some brain-dead visitors, which to me could only be explained as comment spam.
You have helped me decide that I need to spend my time more productively addressing those that are truly willing to commit the time in reading the articles that have cost me and others so much time and effort. Concerning your second question, copies of my articles are produced on Facebook only.
Again thank you for helping me make a decision concerning this expenditure of time and effort. Brent
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