The Second Mile, Part 3 - Do You Want To Be Happy?

from The Olive Branch Markham • Audio Podcast · host The Olive Branch Church

Crazy question, I know. It would be safe to say most of the people in our world are engaged in a lifelong quest for happiness! For some, happiness is seen simply as survival - because that’s what life has boiled down to. But for those of us in the west, happiness would be right up there as one of the major things we’re looking for.  It sometimes comes as a surprise to people in the Jesus tradition that God hardwired us for happiness. That He wants us to be happy! That’s what’s so surprising about Jesus opening to this message; it’s about happiness or blessedness – but the how doesn’t seem to fit with the what. The source of happiness is not stuff or position or pleasure. To boil it down, there are two things we need to pursue to find it.

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Crazy question, I know. It would be safe to say most of the people in our world are engaged in a lifelong quest for happiness! For some, happiness is seen simply as survival - because that’s what life has boiled down to. But for those of us in the west, happiness would be right up there as one of the major things we’re looking for. It sometimes comes as a surprise to people in the Jesus tradition that God hardwired us for happiness. That He wants us to be happy! That’s what’s so surprising about Jesus opening to this message; it’s about happiness or blessedness – but the how doesn’t seem to fit with the what. The source of happiness is not stuff or position or pleasure. To boil it down, there are two things we need to pursue to find it.