You see I had that. He treated me better than I ever imagined another person could. He loved me beyond the scope of what I knew love to be, but I was not happy. I was staring a wedding date in the face, but I couldn't find my way to happily ever after. It took me a very long time to realize that it had nothing to do with him.
I knew enough to know there was no reason to blame him. He hadn't done anything wrong. He was kind and compassionate. He was the model for what I always thought happily ever after would be. However, I had not learned what it meant to be happy.
We tend to think that happiness is a feeling that we have when we are pleased with something, but that isn't happiness. We also think that happiness comes by way of things like money, houses, clothes, or cars. Those things do not constitute happiness either. My favorite thought used to be that happiness was about what I had received be it tangible or more simplistic like attention. But I am here to tell you that true happiness has nothing to do with any of that at all.
Happiness is found in the quiet moments that we spend listening to God. It is in the moments that we spend in prayer or the time spent reading the word. Happiness is in the time that we spend in complete submission to God and His will. As Mr. Carr says, happiness is the assurance that the outcome will be Godly. Until you have that assurance, there is no way that you will find happily ever after. You will simply be chasing a feeling that will never be enough to fill the space that God is supposed to occupy in your heart.
Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.
Philippians 2:1-2
Adayinthelife :-)
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