We often hear people say, “small but definite happiness.” It refers to the small happiness that we feel in our daily life. Seoul National University’s Consumer Trend Research Institute chose the “small but definite happiness” as one of the top ten consumption trends in Korea in 2018.
The term “small but definite happiness” came into vogue when a famous Japanese writer said in his essay book that he felt satisfaction while snacking off his freshly baked bread with his hands or looking at his clothes well-organized in drawers. The writer’s message was “Live with such small happiness in everyday life because happiness doesn’t need to be tremendous,” and his message has aroused great sympathy from modern people who are having less days to smile.
Happiness is one of the words that God’s children often talk about. Since we have been given the great happiness—salvation, it is so natural that we feel satisfaction and joy rather than dissatisfaction. There is no one who wants to lose his own happiness. So everyone struggles to maintain his happiness. We too need some efforts to maintain the happiness we have today. It is to keep the decrees that God gave us for our own good.
And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the LORD’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?Dt 10:12–13