Your happiness depends on…

Bible Text: Romans 12:1-2 | Presenter: Rev. James Destine | Your happiness depends on…
Romans 12:1-2
 

I’m going to ask a question, but don’t any one of you raise your hand. 

 

How many of you here would agree with this statement:  I am not happy with where I am currently.

 

For some of you it’s your

Marriage
Education
Career
Relationships
Spiritual life

 

For some of you it’s all of the above 

 

You’re just not happy!

 

If anyone were to take an x-ray of your mental state, it would be an exact representation of the book of lamentation. 

 

You are in an unhappy state of your life…

 

Whenever human beings find themselves unhappy, we do what comes naturally to us,  we seek to make a change

 

If you are  unhappy and you desire happiness, it requires change. 

 

Some of you are debating right now what to change 

Change your spouse
Change your job
Change  neighborhood
Change your church

 

The problem with Change is that it requires a transition?

 

Transition is going from one state to another

It requires a different recipe

 

That’s why most people who are unhappy stay where they are for however long they can; because whenever you make a transition, you are heading into the unknown 

 

Transition is risky…

 

Illustration:

 

Transition is like the street of New york, you never know what’s awaiting around the corner and worse, can you handle what might come around the corner.  

 

So transitioning from one place to another, from one relationship to another, from one church to another requires a decision. 

 

Transition requires Decisions.

 

One of the biggest decision you will have to make in transition is to decide:

 

What to leave behind and what to take with you

 

 

However, there is one thing when you are in transition you cannot leave behind and the reason you cannot leave it behind is because the choice is not up to you. 

 

Wherever you are transitioning next to, you cannot live behind you

 

Wherever you are going next, you must take you with you 

 

Self is the basis of all relationships- happy or unhappy.

 

Say to the person next to you, if you are to be happy, you have got to get yourself together.

 

You cannot have a relationship without you 

 

The foundation of true happiness is self

 

Moreover, the part that you have the most control of in any relationship is you.

 

Most of the time the reason you can’t get along with anybody is because, you can’t get along with you.

 

The problem is you spend more time blaming everybody else for what’s wrong, but you.

 

Whatever relationship you are in, whatever the education, whatever the career; there is one common denominator and it’s you

 

Just call your name, you’ll be there.

 

So if you are to be happy, you have to make a change.  

Change requires transition

Transition demands a decision to leave some things behind, but you can leave everything behind, but one tYou,

 

And if there is to be a change in your current situation, before you decide to run away, to get out of your marriage, your church or anything else, you have got to get yourself together.

 

Wherever you go next you must take you with you.