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If all deception were gone, would it be apparent that what human beings most need is, in fact, what they most want?

Is it even conceivable that God should make us for a certain purpose and not have it be what we most want? If we were free of all deception we would instantly see that God would never command us to do anything other than what we most want to do.

• “For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.” Colossians 1:16
• “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” Jeremiah 17:9
• “The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.” 1 Corinthians 2:14
• “The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.” Romans 8:7,8
• “The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” 2 Corinthians 4:4

We know what each human being most needs: a restored friendship with God. And if all blindness, all lies, and all self-deception were gone, I’m beyond convinced that every human heart would instantly realize that for which they were created. What they most need — that restored friendship with God — would be plain as day to them as being what they also most want.

So when the air clears, what you most need is what you most want, and what you most need is not to be happy, but to belong to Jesus as his personal friend. However, the byproduct of this is indeed perfect and eternal happiness.

But the fact that we are born with a broken friendship with God, and consequently profoundly unhappy, we make being happy our goal and do all we do to try to find lasting happiness.

But while it’s been proposed that the pursuit of happiness explains what’s behind all human behavior, happiness is not what the human heart was made for and most needs so neither can that be what it most wants.

The deepest want of the human heart — of your heart — is to be restored to friendship with God, namely Jesus, and walk hand-in-hand with him.

So how clear is it to you that the person you were created to be, the person you most need to be — Jesus’ personal friend — is the person you most want to be?

Then ask yourself: is life really worth living if you are not becoming the person you most need and want to be? Would heaven itself be a happy experience to you if you were not that person?