Everyone is chasing happiness. You can see it in the self-help shelves overflowing at every bookstore, in the wellness apps promising peace in five minutes a day, in the quiet desperation behind so many social media feeds curated to look joyful. We are a generation obsessed with happiness and, by most measures, failing to find it. Anxiety is at record highs. Loneliness is epidemic. And yet the pursuit continues, more frantic than ever.
What if we have been looking in entirely the wrong direction? What if the path to genuine, lasting joy runs not through self-optimization or circumstantial comfort, but through surrender to a kingdom that looks nothing like the kingdoms of this world? Jen Oshman explores exactly this question in a recent piece worth reading in full: Read the source article. Her insights, drawn from Scripture and the witness of thinkers like C. S. Lewis, point us back to the one place happiness has always been waiting: in the person and kingdom of Jesus Christ.
The Biblical Diagnosis: We Were Made for More Than This World Offers
To understand why happiness eludes us, we have to begin at the beginning. Genesis tells us that human beings were not assembled by chance but crafted by a personal God who stamped his own image onto us:
