Faith Minute® is a one minute program heard on dozens of stations across the country. Each weekday your host, Leith Anderson, shares an inspiring and practical message of hope, encouragement and challenge showing why 'living by faith' can be the most stretching, fulfilling and rewarding experience you will ever have.
January 10, 2012
My wife and I visited an old man who’d been sick with a chronic cough for more than a year. As we listened to his excuses for not going to the doctor, it became apparent that he was afraid of having a shot.
Finally he agreed to go and the diagnosis was a chronic infection easily treated with an oral medication. He recovered quickly and he didn’t even need to have a shot!
That old man is like a lot of us as we search for happiness. We try many home remedies yet we’re reluctant to go to the divine physician to get the real problem diagnosed. When we finally go, we discover that our real need is not for happiness, but for the righteousness that Jesus offers.
If we look just for happiness, we’ll continually miss it, but if we seek righteousness, we’ll find happiness, too.
