Shiny Happy People

Do you remember that song from R.E.M, "Shiny Happy People"? I was listening to my Ipod the other day and I found that song! I totally forgot about that song. Then I listen to the to the lyrics, I mean, I know this song so well, but I never really listened to the lyrics until recently:

Shiny happy people laughing
Meet me in the crowd
People people
Throw your love around
Love me love me
Take it into town
Happy happy
Put it in the ground
Where the flowers grow
Gold and silver shine

Shiny happy people holding hands
Shiny happy people laughing

Ahh!! Don't you just hear that song in your head right now?! Go ahead get up and dance a little, I just did! Come on you know you want to. That song usually makes me feel, um I don't know, HAPPY!! You know why? Because I AM. A SHINY HAPPY PERSON!! ha! Well, at least I try to be. I wish I was like this ALL the time, but the sad thing is, when I let the cares and worries of this world take the wheel of my life. I get the opposite of being a SHINY HAPPY person.
In my devotion this morning, I was reading in Proverbs 3:13 "Happy is the man who finds wisdom, And the man who gains understanding." Finds wisdom? Really? Then I was thinking, wait if all I need is some wisdom, then I can do this! But see the thing is, I was trying to use MY wisdom to "fix" things. And not the Lord's wisdom. And in Jeremiah 29:11" 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." Did you read that last word? A hope. And when we have the Hope of Jesus and the certainty that He will never leave us or forsake us, then why on earth can't we all be SHINY HAPPY people? In Psalm 144:15 it says, "Happy are the people whose God is the Lord!" Who is your god? I think when we put other things in front of God and we expect them to give us that happiness and hope. But they never do. Being happy is an act of our own will. God can't make us happy. We are not puppets on a string. We all have things in our lives that make us unhappy. But the best thing is, we have that power through Christ to make it out! One of my favorite scriptures is in Romans 8:28 "And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose." Having that true peace of God will guard our hearts and minds and from all the anxieties, worries, cares of this world. When we feel His presence, it creates a strong bond that this world can never take away! That is such an awesome feeling! To walk in the the Spirit. To believe that God will get us through anything, and that He does not give us more that we can handle. I pray, today that we all walk in His love, and seek His wisdom and knowledge in all we do. I pray that no matter what obstacles and worries this week has for us, we will call out to God, and that we put no other god in His place and that we walk in Spirit and let our Shiny light shine so bright! After all, we are all Shiny, happy People =)