The Pursuit of Happiness!

The pursuit of happiness can take individuals in many different directions, but the end desire is happiness. Two Sundays ago we had a great service. Why?, because the unexpected happen. The message was on Lordship and at the end of the service, with only a hand full of people there, people began opening up. They began to share how God had delivered them from addictive behavior that they thought was bringing them happiness, but was bringing them enslavement. This week I quoted from Blaise Pascal a fourteenth century French Philosopher:

All men seek happiness. This is without exception.Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and others avoiding it, is the desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of everyman, even of those who hang themselves.

After reading this questions that I have heard keep ringing in my ear: Why do I find myself enslaved to this addiction. Why is the happiness that I am trying to find only brings to me confusion and despair. Why do some people, especially teenagers take their own life in a quest for release of this life. Some ask why do I do the things I do? The apostle Paul asked the same question, and the answer he received is the same answer we get. Who will save me from this wretched man that I am, Thanks be to Jesus who delivers me. (Romans 7:14-25)

I don't know what you are facing right now, I don't even know if there may be some addictive behavior that you are facing right now, I don't even know if there are people reading this blog, but I do know the one that can give you happiness. It is Heaven, and heaven is not a place, He is a Person and His name is Jesus. Quit trying to find happiness in stuff, or in the things that are really addictions that have enslaved you and trust Jesus for your happiness.


Just thoughts from a sinner on his way home,

peace, byron

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