How Can Unhappiness Motivate Change?

It’s impossible to be a member of society and never experience some unhappiness. Children do not always get what they want although they may tend to be overindulged. A young woman was sent to the university of her choice with a new sports car, the latest fashion, and credits cards, but after a semester of failing grades and being very unhappy, she refused to continue seeking a college degree.

Spoiled children and adults believe if they could acquire a particular object, place or position, they would surely be satisfied, contented, and happy. Yet they’re under constant pressure to keep the truth hidden behind a mask of distorted reality.

This method of thinking and feeling can eventually produce an emotional crisis. Unhappiness can be the motivation for reaching out to Christ Jesus and perhaps a Christian counselor. Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ gives you courage to do what is good and right for yourself and others. Faith is God’s gift to you for managing unhappiness. 

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So get rid of your old self, which made you live as you used to – the old self that was being destroyed by its deceitful desires. Your hearts and minds must be made completely new, and you must put on the new self, which is created in God’s likeness and reveals itself in the true life that is upright and holy.  

~Ephesians 4:22-24 Good News Bible

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Can Unhappiness Ever Be Beneficial?

The majority of people accept the fact that happiness cannot be permanently sustained. Happiness is dependent on too many variables and evaporates if our expectations fail or when we’re confronted with disappointment. Can unhappiness be healthy or beneficial?

Unhappiness can bring together the power and strength of your soul and spirit to discover solutions made available by the Holy Spirit. Conflict that exists in a relationship or within oneself can be resolved if you seek God himself with all your heart. This will restore peace between you and God by creating a climate for healthy change.

While God does not prevent unhappiness from being intrusive, he never intended for it to be permanent. Jesus said, "I am the light of the world and in me there is no darkness." This means that problems and troubles will show up, but the light that Jesus is will be your guide and hope for managing any darkness that’s trying to create unhappiness. God bless you.  

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Sorrow is better than laugher, for sorrow has a refining influence on us.

~Ecclesiastes 7:3 The Living Bible

 

So humble yourselves under God’s strong hand, and in his own good time he will lift you up. You can throw the whole weight of your anxieties upon him, for you are his personal concern.

~1 Peter 5:6-7 Phillips – New Testament in Modern English

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