“Set your heart on his Kingdom first, and on righteousness, and all these things will be given you as well ” (Mt. 6:33).
The United States Constitution affirms the people’s right to freely engage themselves in the “pursuit of happiness.” The New Testament — a collection of the greatest “self- help” books ever written — teaches people how to engage themselves in the “pursuit of happiness.” In so doing, the New Testament writers seem to be telling us that God has a sense of humor. The poet Robert Frost has expressed his understanding of this in a delightful couplet:
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes
on Thee, And I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me!
God’s great big joke on us is that, in terms of ultimate reality, the pursuit of happiness is a trivial pursuit. “He who acts in truth comes to the light,” Jesus says. The Gospel truth is that we cannot achieve happiness by pursuing it. Happiness is the result…
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