2/24/2025
Do you feel unhappy? Do you wonder why? Do you question what it would take for you to be truly happy? You may expect a preacher type person to say that you need God to be happy—but is that true? Can you be happy without God in your life?
In his book Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis says: “God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human engine to run on himself. He himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.
That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended—civilizations are built up—excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down. They are trying to run it on the wrong juice. That is what Satan has done to us humans.”
Is Satan winning out in your life, and you know an inner unhappiness because you’ve bought into the lie that you can make yourself happy without God? That’s not true.
Or, is God winning out in your life, and you know a genuine happiness, a life-transforming happiness and peace, because that can only be known through the presence of God active in your live and can never be known apart from God.
Will you embrace fully a faith that fuels your spirit as daily you live and love like Jesus so that you know a true happiness, realizing your relationship with Jesus is what’s really important, and happiness is just a by-product.