Attaining Happiness
Attaining Happiness The number one goal of mankind is to achieve happiness but why is this emotion so fleeting and short lived? Since the 'fall of mankind' and our subsequent fallen nature it is the practice of people to live 'in the flesh' and not 'in the spirit' as was the original intent of our Creator. Even the majority of believers live according to the drives of the flesh. Living in the 'flesh' means that person's main focus in life is directed toward the circumstances of their daily living. But worse than that is the added burden of spending most of their time and thoughts in remorse over the past leading to depression and wringing their hands in fear over the future producing stress and illness. No wonder happiness comes in such small doses only to be drowned out by the next soon coming calamity. 'Living in the spirit' first of all requires 'living in the present'. Everything about us becomes habit and habits can be sta...