Happy People

Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
Then all the people went away to eat and drink, to send portions of food and to celebrate with great joy, because they now understood the words that had been made known to them.

Happy, Wise People : Children, Simpleton and the Wise .

One Saturday, my nephew Matthew came over my place and spent the whole day over (because Mommy and little brother were unwell and Daddy was "nursing" them).

We were spending the day in the house as we were under "strict order" from his daddy that we are not to step out of the house, basically we are not to be gallivanting outside.
So we stayed in house watching TV, playing toys, listening to music, did some coloring and numbering. While gallivanting indoor, it caught me that Matthew were "singing" two songs a few times, pretty "senseless" songs.

The first song's lyrics "I'm very clever!"
The second song's lyrics "Jumping is so fun."

For the first song, it is sung after he "accomplished" some tasks.
For the second song, it is just "ad-hoc" (well, at least from my perspective) behaviour.
Both songs were performed with great joy. At one point, I asked him when he was performing the second song, "Is jumping really so fun?"
And he replied a matter of factly "Yes, jumping is very fun!" (But I did not follow him and jump with joy. I was thinking.)

In the book of Nehemiah, Chapter 8, there is a record of the people of Israelites weeping when the Book of the Law of God was read and explained to them. But the Levites, Nehemiah and Ezra who were instructing them in the Book of the Law said to them "This day is sacred to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep. Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is sacred to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength. Be still, for this is a sacred day. Do not grieve."

Then all the people went away to eat and drink, to send portions of food and to celebrate with great joy, because they now understood the words that had been made known to them.

From the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day, the Israelites had not celebrated it like this. And their joy was very great.


Children - are joyous because understanding has not been taken away from them (yet!).
Simpleton - are joyous (maybe) because understanding has been sealed within them
(I cannot say for sure and this may seem a very cruel comment but that is the way I see it at times. I do stand to be corrected.)
the Wise - are joyous because understanding has returned to them.


"Jumping is so fun." "I'm very clever!"
My nephew is indeed very clever and happy.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. And their joy will be complete.
Be merry!