Happiness is an attribute of love. It cannot be apart from it, nor can it be experienced where love is not. Love has no limits, being everywhere. And therefore joy is everywhere as well. Yet can the mind deny that this is so, believing there are gaps in love where sin can enter, bringing pain instead of joy.
This strange belief would limit happiness by redefining love as limited, and introducing opposition in what has no limit and no opposite. Fear is associated then with love, and its results become the heritage of minds that think what they have made is real. These images, with no reality in truth, bear witness to the fear of God, forgetting being Love He must be joy.
This basic error we will try again to bring to truth today, and teach ourselves:
God, being Love, is also happiness.
To fear Him is to be afraid of joy.
Begin your longer exercises for today with this association, which corrects the false belief that God is fear. It also emphasizes happiness belongs to you because of what He is.
Allow this one correction to be placed within your minds each waking hour today. Then welcome all the happiness it brings, as truth replaces fear, and joy becomes what you expect to take the place of pain. God being Love, it will be given you. Bolster this expectation frequently throughout the day, and quiet all your fears with this assurance, kind and wholly true:
God, being Love, is also happiness.
And it is happiness I seek today.
I cannot fail, because I seek the truth.
✨ Summary & practice
“God, being Love, is also happiness.” Happiness is an attribute of love, it cannot be separated from it. Love has no limits; it is everywhere. Therefore, joy is everywhere too. Yet the mind can deny this, believing there are cracks in love through which sin can enter and bring pain. This strange belief limits happiness by redefining love as limited. Fear is then associated with love, and God becomes fearful.
“To fear Him is to fear joy.” This fundamental error, associating fear with God, is corrected today. God, being Love, is joy. If God is Love and Love is happiness, then seeking God is seeking happiness. And you cannot fail, because you are seeking the truth. Let this correction enter your mind each hour: God is not to be feared. God is the joy you seek. In Him, there is only happiness.
This lesson is part of the 101–105 block on happiness. Lesson 101 declared happiness as God’s Will. Lesson 102 affirmed you share this Will. Lesson 103 identifies God Himself as happiness. Lessons 104–105 guide you to seek and accept this happiness that is God. Each lesson adds another layer to the revelation that God is not to be feared but loved, and that in Him lies your joy.
Today, each hour, repeat: “God, being Love, is also happiness. To fear Him is to fear joy. It is happiness that I seek today. I cannot fail, because I seek the truth.” When a fear of God, or a fear of happiness, arises, remember: this fear is the fundamental error. God is Love, and Love is happiness. There is nothing to fear. Welcome the happiness that God is.
God is not fear; He is joy. To seek Him is to seek happiness. And you cannot fail.
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