I JUST WANT TO BE HAPPY!

1 Corinthians 2: 6 – 16


Popular culture, today, tells us that all we need to have a fulfilling life is to find happiness. Wow. Cool. Just be happy. That should be easy enough to attain. After all, there are the laws of attraction to follow that will lead us to our happy place.
Yep, there is something called the law of attraction. The only thing we need to do, according to the law, is to think only of things that make you happy, and as if by “magic” happy things will be attracted to you.
And they say that there are no more philosophers around today.
The Bible, however, tells us something completely different about reaching the secret of a fulfilling life.

12 We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.
13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.

I think that it's looking bad for the happy attraction people.
Things are not as simple as they appear.
Sure, we all want to be happy and live a fulfilling life, but that has more to do with our growth in the Holy Spirit, and a more intimate relationship with God.

9 That’s why we have this Scripture text: No one’s ever seen or heard anything like this, Never so much as imagined anything quite like it—What God has arranged for those who love him.
10 But you’ve seen and heard it because God by his Spirit has brought it all out into the open before you. The Spirit, not content to flit around on the surface, dives into the depths of God, and brings out what God planned all along.
11 Who ever knows what you’re thinking and planning except you yourself? The same with God—except that he not only knows what he’s thinking,
12 but he lets us in on it. God offers a full report on the gifts of life and salvation that he is giving us.

15 Spiritually alive, we have access to everything God’s Spirit is doing, and can’t be judged by unspiritual critics.
16 Isaiah’s question, "Is there anyone around who knows God’s Spirit, anyone who knows what he is doing?" has been answered: Christ knows, and we have Christ’s Spirit. (The message)



There are times when the Message says it best.
We want a relationship with God, but if we don't know how to do that, let alone know what other people think, how do we achieve this goal?
We get to know Jesus more thoroughly gaining in the law of the spirit that we seek for after the laws of sin and death weigh heavily upon us.
These things help us to know God more fully, and achieve that true happiness of a life worth living.