“People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Abraham Lincoln
It is amazing how true this quote is. Some people, who have everything, are never happy. Others, who by the measure of the world, have nothing, are incredibly happy. Why is this? What is the difference between these types of people? Why do some people choose to be unhappy and others choose to be happy?
Over the past several weeks I have been doing a devotional on happiness and one verse has been stuck in my mind of late. “Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13-14
If you are working for something else, for a bigger calling, happiness isn’t dependent on receiving affirmation from this world. Something to ponder. Happiness is a choice…
