We’re all looking for that ticket to happiness. What is it we are missing and how can we get it so we are always happy? Our Creator designed us to find the sweet secret of happiness within only in HIM. Scripture refers to this inner happiness as contentment. The Hebrew word was autarkeia and it meant a mind set on the secret of happiness completely independent of all outward things. Meaning nothing outside of you can make you truly happy, it’s all about what’s in you. And my sister, God has been working in you to bring you to this place of sweet happiness. Contentment. Autarkeia. Paul writes in 1 Timothy 6: 6-8, “True godliness with contentment is itself great wealth. After all, we brought nothing with us when we came into the world, and we can’t take anything with us when we leave it. So if we have enough food and clothing, let us be content.” Is that you today … don’t you really have enough already? You have food for today. You have clothes to put on today. Then you have the makings of great wealth in contentment. When we know and trust God, we can accept things as they are, believing it’s all under the wise and loving providence of our God who loves us wildly, knows what is good for us and is always working all things together for our good. Is that who your God is? He sees all things and knows all things. He’s involved in every detail of your life. He loves you wildly, relentlessly, and endlessly. He has good plans for you and he will work everything together to bring you into those good plans for your life today, for your future, and for your eternity. My friend, if there’s any part of that you question, then you will continually struggle with this sweet secret of happiness within called contentment. The enemy cannot offer contentment, because he does not love you. He does not want what is best for you. His plans are to kill everything good in your life, steal everything God has given you, and destroy every ounce of hope, faith and love in you. What the enemy offers as a counterfeit to God’s contentment is a constant quest for more. More money. More success. More things. More followers. More fame. More, more, more. The truth is, there’s nothing inherently wrong about any of those things, other than the claws they set deep within us making us crave more. Really, think about it … Do you make more money today than you once even dared to think was possible? And now, even with that higher salary and bigger paycheck, you think more would be better, huh? The claws are in deep, Sis. 1 Timothy 6:10 TPT, “Craving more money pushes us away from faith into error, compounding misery in our lives.” Replace the word ‘money’ with anything you’re wanting more of and test it to see if it’s true. If you’re a shoes girl, you know the sheer excitement over putting on those new shoes. But the excitement is short lived and then you need another pair of new shoes. Then more and more. And soon, you’re a slave to the unending hunger for more and you’ve literally created misery in your life. This desire for more and more replaces God’s offer of contentment. Contentment says “ahhhh, this is good just as it is and I am happy within.” But the enemy’s counterfeit offer of more comes in and steals our happiness and turns our focus to what else there could be. You know, I’ve never once seen a hearse pulling a U-Haul trailer. You can’t take any of this with you, so why have we allowed it to become our focus during our short time in this life? Oh,