The biggest lie promoted by various of our social institutions - and this in some ways plays into our human nature and our sin of laziness - is that we're here to be happy all the time. We are bombarded by business, the media, and the church with the lie that we're here to be happy, fullfilled, and comfortable. For motives of profit,the lies of materialism and advertising suggest that if we're not happy,comfortable and fullfilled, we must be eating the wrong cereal or driving the wrong car. Or that we must not have it right with God. How wicked. The truth is that our fnest moments, more often than not, occur precisely when we
are uncomfortable,when we are not feeling happy or fulfilled, wehn we are struggling and searching.