“A car is made to run on gasoline, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. . . .There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way. . . God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from himself, because it is not there. There us no such thing” (CS Lewis).

Apart from God, nothing can make me happy.

Not a job, not a relationship, not a big house, not a new car, not all the money in the world.

In theory, it sounds so very simple, yet in practice, it can be a bit difficult to realize.

Maybe it’s all the commercials telling me how I can’t be happy and satisfied until I buy this product or that service or eat this food.

Maybe it’s my own human nature that constantly craves and desires and yearns for more stuff.

Whatever it is, I keep forgetting that only God can bring true peace and joy.

God, please keep reminding me that you are my true life. You are the only living water that satisfies, apart from all the broken cisterns in my life that hold only sand and ashes.