While most people’s goal in life is to be happy then why is our natural state one of discontentment? Approximately 9.14 billion U.S. dollars are spent in Canada alone to convince us to buy goods and services with the promise that it will make us happy. For the poor of this world does this mean that happiness is unattainable and the best they can hope for is to “window shop” and dream? If this were the case, then how does one explain so many people in this world remaining poor and yet happy? Also, if happiness comes from buying “stuff” then how does one explain why so many rich people are unhappy? Isn’t it true that despite buying the best vacations, fanciest cars, luxurious homes and mountains of food to eat, our insatiable desires to always want more keeps us sad because we are always looking a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow that simply does not exist? Charles Spurgeon said that both in abundance and need “covetousness, discontent and murmuring, are as natural to a man as thorns are to the soil,” In today’s sermon we are going to find out that the key to happiness is being content and thankful with whatever God has provided!