If anyone or anything outside of Christ is your source for happiness and satisfaction, you’ll forever be miserable. Even many multi-millionaires feel that they would be happier with “just a little more.” Our problem is, we view happiness materially—our lot compared with that of our neighbor’s. As long as the Joneses have a new lawnmower, we can’t be happy until we get one too.

Happiness is an attitude. Men like David and Paul understood this. In spite of the fiercest opposition, both were happy. David wrote: “As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.” Paul wrote: “Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.”