And life presents each of us with different experiences that shape us.
There’s a vast spectrum of temperaments Whether you like Myers-Briggs or DISC or Enneagram or something else, I think most of us can agree that we have different traits and it is foolish to expect everyone to respond the same way to their circumstances.
417).Īnother problem with putting happiness on a pedestal is that it discounts the wide variety of personalities and experiences that make up humanity. Just as the dieter passes up some foods, knowing that the health of their body depends on it, so we too can pass up certain temporal pleasures because we know “this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison” (2 Cor. We can accept some limitations and difficulties today if we know that there is something far better that will last for all eternity. But if in fact the dead are raised, we need to take the long view. As the Apostle Paul wrote, “If the dead are not raised, ‘Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die’” (1 Cor. One problem is that it assumes this life is all that matters.
There is a perception among unbelievers that “If your beliefs don’t make you 100% happy, then they can’t be that good.” That then carries over to believers thinking “If I’m not happy all the time then there must be something wrong with my faith,” or “I’ve got to fake it till I make it.” Unfortunately, that has had a negative impact on the church as well. founding fathers declared that mankind is endowed with the rights to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Our culture in recent years has taken that last part to an extreme-declaring that happiness is all that matters and there should be nothing that stands in its way.
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