Happiness in God Alone Spares us Much Anxiety

Spare yourself some anxiety and believe that God is able to make you happy without anything but himself:

O what a blessed thing it is to lose one's will. Since I have lost my will I have found happiness. There can be no such thing as disappointment to me, for I have no desires but that God's will might be accomplished. Christians might avoid much trouble if they would only believe what they profess, viz., that God is able to make them happy without anything but Himself. They imagine that if is such a dear friend were to die, or such and such a blessing removed, they should be miserable, whereas God can make them a thousand times happier without them. To mention my own case, God has been depriving me of one blessing after another, but as every one was removed He has come in and filled up its place, and now, when I am a cripple and unable to move, I am happier than ever I was in my life before or expected to be, and if I had believe this twenty years ago I might have been spared much anxiety.

--Edward Payson, quoted in More Love to Thee by Sharon James

This is not the end of desires as a means to avoid anxiety. It is not the mystical thought of killing wants and desires. No, it is actually finding our full desire met in God as our ultimate joy. If he is the best Being the universe then the best gift he can give is himself. In believing that, and delighting in him through Jesus Christ, we find unshakable happiness.