Believe it or not lasting joy is found in a relationship with God and a life lived for Him. What’s truly unfortunate, however, is that there are many in our world today who are trying to find it without Him.

The reason why our book stores are filled with “self-help” books and why we constantly feel as if there is more to life than what is right in front of us is because there is. Each and every one of us has a “God-Shaped/God-sized void” in our lives that can only be filled by God Himself.

C.S. Lewis once said, “If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” And we are. The truth is there is no lasting joy in a life lived without God. Solomon is clear on this in Ecclesiastes 1 when he explains to his readers, “Life under the Sun, or life without God, is vanity.”

Fortunately for us, God did not intend for us to live life without him. Although Solomon diagnosed the problem, God provides the solution by sending His son.