As we read this story of blessing and familiarize ourselves with the men and women who are experiencing God’s blessing, we realize that it is not something external or ephemeral. Not a matter of having a good day, not an occasional run of luck. It is an inner strength of the soul—and the happiness it creates, . . . the vital power, without which no living being can exist. Happiness cannot be given to a person as something lying outside him . . . . The action of God does not fall outside but at the very center of the soul; that which it gives us is not something external, but the energy, the
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