A world void of happiness

I am still not convinced that life should be an absolute happy occasion. You say that you agree, but then why do we yearn for happiness so much? We are not realistic with our expectations and fool ourselves into thinking that this world ought to be one happy place. I can agree that one of the ideals should be happiness. Yet, we have little understanding of happiness or are in denial about how to attain it. Most of us live from one moment to the next and have little thought for the consequences of obtaining happiness at any cost. There is nothing wrong about fulfilling temporary desires as long as it leads to overall good, but it is surely wrong when fulfilling desires if it has very adverse future consequences. Be wary of your desires. They will mislead you. Always think first and make righteousness the base for your thoughts. The worldly desires are almost always at odds with true personal happiness. We think wealth, health and status provide happiness, we think fulfilling fleshly desires makes us happy, or perhaps  happiness is subject to the number of friends we have or amount of partying. Maybe you ascribe being happy to having good standing with family. Or better, you think that belonging to some group such as church will make you happy. The truth is, none of it will make you happy. For a little while you might fill a void and think that is happiness. But, filling a void is just masking the loneliness and emptiness you experience. Because we don't know what happiness means we grasp on to straw like things of this world. When the wind blows, it will destroy the house on which you build happiness.

So if the world is void of happy offerings, what then can make me happy? There are a few wonderful gifts given to man that is meant for his happiness. The best one is the love we experience for each other. To sacrifice your time, money and even your life for someone you care more for than yourself makes us happy. Nature provides us with many sights that blow us away and which stuns us to the core. Being part of nature is perhaps understanding where you come from. To understand and comprehend where you come from makes us happy. To serve freely makes us happy. To give without restraint makes us happy. To fall on our knees and plea for forgiveness makes us happy. To do your husbandly and wifely duties makes us happy. In purpose lies happiness. Yet there is one thing more. It moves beyond our experiences of this world and is something more deeply rooted than any happy emotion; joy. Joy transcends happiness (See C.S Lewis's Surprised by Joy). Joy is everlasting. Joy is understanding everything to anything. It is wisdom and knowledge. And you can only have joy when you have God inside your heart. When you have God inside you then you have truth and light. And what happier occasion exists than knowledge and experience of absolute truth and absolute light? There is none.