What Makes You Happy?

Our world today seems to have every conceivable toy, trinket, technology and/or convenience we could possibly want or need. Everything (good or bad) is literally at our fingertips. We can order anything we want, at anytime we want to be delivered whenever we want. Our society has become accustomed to the NOW mentality. The pace of life grows faster each day.

Yet, depression, isolation and suicide rates are all on the rise. We have everything to offer yet many of us feel utterly alone. How can this be? Why are professional athletes, who seem to "have it all" getting divorced or taking their own lives?

In the first two verses of Ecclesiastes Chapter 6, the writer tells us, I have seen another evil under the sun, and it weighs heavily on mankind: 2 God gives some people wealth, possessions and honor, so that they lack nothing their hearts desire, but God does not grant them the ability to enjoy them, and strangers enjoy them instead. This is meaningless, a grievous evil.

True joy, genuine happiness does not come from material things. These pleasures of live fulfill a perceived need or desire when we convince ourselves, "If I only had this..."(another job, another home, another spouse). The evil the writer of Ecclesiastes is speaking about is how the enemy uses the promise of happiness in what we have or own only to create an emptiness that cannot be filled by the world.

Our true joy comes through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Nothing else can compare.

I hope you have a blessed week and allow Him to speak into your lives. See you in church on Sunday...

Pastor Aaron