“All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end…The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man…”
–Blaise Pascal, Pensées, Loc. 2049
BIG IDEA
Jesus is the of our joy.
“What is it then that this desire and this inability [to realize the good we long for] proclaim to us, but that there was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings…But these are all inadequate, because the infinite abyss can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object, that is to say, only by God himself.”
–Blaise Pascal, Pensées, Loc. 2049
Psalm 145: 9; 15-16
Psalm 16:1
Psalm 16:2
Psalm 16:3-4
Psalm 16:5-6
Psalm 16:7-8
Jeremiah 17:9
Mark 7:21-23
Psalm 16:9-10
Psalm 16:11
“If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink…and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
–C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, p.26
Acts 13:32-39