You want to be happy.
Happiness can feel so elusive. It feels fickle and dictated by your circumstances. So what is the secret to happiness?
When you look into God's word you will find that the Bible describes people who follow God as happy and joyful. Yet, when that doesn't line up in your life it can feel really heavy. It can feel like you're not being a "good Christian" or that something is wrong with you.
So what do you do?
Well, your brain is a problem solving machine and will seek to solve this crisis. You will look for the solution to happiness, and unfortunately this can lead you down the wrong road because society will tell you that happiness come from your environment. Society will tell you that happiness comes from how people feel about you, how much money you're making, what you look like. All of these solutions are external.
So we as believers as Christians are characterized and called to be happy someone who follows after god follows after his love is someone who is joyful who's happy and have happiness in their life. Let's break that down what is that because we have this negative i say negative we have this poor narrative in our society this poor belief I'll say that that happiness comes from the environment. We've been conditioned to believe that when we're not happy when we need to use an external source to change the environment.
A lot of times what can happen is can lead to things like excessive use of sex, alcohol, drugs, etc. There's a natural tendency to pursue things that are fun to increase happiness, but fun generally is generally a short term win but dissatisfying in the long term.
In today's episode, we talk about how growth is what leads to happiness. Which is amazing news because your growth is 100% in your control. It doesn't depend on your circumstance. It doesn't depend how you feel. You can choose to be happy by pursuing growth.
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