Andy Stanley's "What makes you happy?"
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Do we know?
We have forgotten what makes us happy,
Advertisements promise and under deliver
Happiness is more about who than what
Parents who create the environment, but
Happiness is always associate with a who or two
Happy what always leads to happy what else
I'd an aging what deflates your happiness you aren't happy to begin with. Just being marketed to.
globalX Syndrome:
"How can they be so happy, they don't have anything."
Impossible for Parents to eclipse the happiness than their most unhappy child
Same with husbands and wives
A couple struggling with infertility: what you own, what you drive, what you wear
Hard to maintain happiness when you're trying to bring a child into the world.
Our fulfillment will be tied to some who's, not some what's
In the end you will have relational, not possessional, regrets
"I don't need anyone in order to be happy"
Two types: people with relational options, inundated with love & such
People who cannot fix their relational problems: I am an island - super dangerous
When we can't get what we want, we tell ourselves we don't really want it
Happy people are at peace with...
-Themselves
-Others
-God
Anything that undermines your peace ultimately undermines your happiness.
Jesus followers => Christians
Peace with God paves the way to peace with ourselves and equips us to make peace with others
A lawyer asks Jesus What is Gods favourite law?
-Matthew 22:36
'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
-Jesus
The most important commandment is about peace with God.
The second is like it: love others as yourself.
God provides the way to happiness
One other idea:
SIN
Whatever you think others or yourself shouldn't do, but do anyway
Sin is falling short of our standards
Sin separates
-You from others
-You from God
-Yiu from yourself
'If I ever_______, I wouldn't be able to live with myself!'
Sin makes a happy promise sin can't keep.
Sin is not your friend.
James brother of Jesus
James 1:15
After desire, -> sin, -> death.
To summarize:
Since happy is about who, not what
happy people are at peace with themselves, others, and possibly God, and
since sin undermines peace by substituting and substituting
Since Jesus valued and prioritized peace both God, ourselves, and others
And since you want to be happy
You should consider becoming a follower of Jesus.
That's all for now.
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