God created you to be happy, commands that you be happy, and stands ready to fill you with deep, abiding happiness. Yet happiness is not an automatic reality, even for believers. God’s path to happiness requires that we walk it out.

A life of thanksgiving is available to every one of us. In our consumeristic culture, it will take radical heart change and refocusing our attention, but God is able to do above and beyond all that we can think or ask. But we must ask.