If you haven’t reached the place where you realize pleasure and accomplishments are not happiness, you may find you are not yet ready for Jesus’ answer for how to get true happiness. You may have to go all the way to the end of your own efforts before you can see the need for Jesus’ help. But, if you ARE at the place where you are looking back on your life and realize that you really don’t know how to get happiness, you are probably ready to listen to other possibilities.

Jesus will use Devotions With Jesus to take God’s way for obtaining happiness and present it in a way where you will be able to compare it with the approach you have been using. Many people have been confused about what kind of a change God is expecting from them since they have started coming to Him. Read this next question and see if it is the question you now have.

This is the question you need to be asking; it will help you get started looking in new directions for help.

If you are satisfied with going back to doing the same things tomorrow that you did today, then you need to take a look at some new possibilities. If you are still hoping that some of your old methods will SOME DAY come through and bring you LASTING happiness, then you need to ask yourself some important questions.

What have you tried so far and how has it worked for you? If you don’t have a mentor to help you with this, then you will need to develop a list of things you have tried over the years. You will need to look at each thing you have tried in the past or are currently trying and analyze what the results were. What were the results from all those things you thought would make you happy? However, this will only work if you are totally honest.

You will need to list everything you have tried that you thought would make you happy. Then describe how it started out giving you pleasure. After that, write out what kind of problems and disappointments also came from it. And then, carefully examine what was the end result you got from all that effort. Jesus will use this to help you see how much you thought things were going to bring you happiness, how they did give you happiness at first, and then He will show you the side effects that came through them.

As a part of Devotions With Jesus, Jesus will help you with a series of questions that can help you evaluate and critique the current philosophies that are running your life. He will help you see the disappointments, inadequacies, and failures in your current philosophies. This will show you how much you need Jesus’ truths and a relationship with Him guiding you into a better way of life.