Matthew 6:34 (NIV)
34 Therefore do not worry
about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough
trouble of its own.
King George V wrote on the
flyleaf of the Bible of a friend, “The secret of happiness is not to do what
you like to do, but to learn to like what you have to do.” Too many think of
happiness as some sort of will-o’-the-wisp thing that is discovered by constant
and relentless searching. It is not found by seeking. It is not an end in
itself. Pots of gold are never found at the end of the rainbow, as we used to
think when we were children; gold is mined from the ground or panned
laboriously from a mountain stream.
Jesus once told His disciples,
“Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things
shall be added unto you.” The “things” He spoke of were the things that make us
feel happy and secure—food, drink, clothes, shelter. He told us not to make
these the chief goal of our lives but to “seek the kingdom” and these needs
would be automatically supplied. There, if we will take it, is the secret of
happiness.
Thought for today: Am I in the practice of putting God first?
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