One Is The Loneliest Number

There is a bit of ancient wisdom that advises: “If you want to be happy for an hour, take a nap. If you want to be happy for a day, go fishing. If you want to be happy for a year, inherit a fortune. But if you want to be happy for a lifetime, help somebody.” For centuries since many of our greatest thinkers have suggested exactly the same thing — that happiness is found in helping others. Prime Minister Winston Churchill summed it up in this statement: “We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.” -1

God made us to be happy. God wants us to be happy. And, in and through the Lord Jesus, He provides us with a formula for life that casts aside the mistaken notion that we can be happy “on our own.” It is the mistaken notion that we can substitute our own formula for God’s; the mistaken notion that…