Bliss

A popular idea is that each of us needs to find our bliss: the thing that makes us perfectly or deliriously happy. Apparently you can find your bliss in chocolate, a spa day, driving a fast car on a curvy road, quiet reflection, or even by watching Oprah!  There are websites dedicated to helping you learn how to find your bliss. Is finding real, actual Bliss attainable? If you are defining bliss as perfect happiness then it is absolutely unattainable. However, if you read further in your dictionary you will find that bliss is also described as “a state of spiritual joy”.  I confess that I have always thought of bliss as being something obtainable through really great dark chocolate, and not obtained through my Savior, Jesus Christ.

Recently I was gathered with other believers and was forcibly struck by the words to the song It is Well With My Soul: “My sin oh the bliss of this glorious thought: My sin, not in part, but the whole. Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more. Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, Oh my soul.” 

Jesus has put himself between God and our sin; interceding with God on our behalf by dying on the cross and rising again. Isaiah 53:11 & 12 “My servant will justify the many, as He will bear their iniquities….Because He poured out Himself to death and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he himself bore the sin of many, and interceded for the transgressors.”  Have you accepted the work that Jesus accomplished on the cross?

For those of us who know Jesus personally, who believe in His name and have accepted his gift of salvation, bliss is already within our grasp. If bliss is a state of spiritual joy, then we have everlasting, eternal bliss. You can’t obtain it through chocolate, shopping or driving fast. No website can tell you how to get it. It is obtained only through the transforming power of Jesus in your life.

“Behold, the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.”  John 1:29