Graduation Speech: God Has a Plan for You -- Graduation Speech, Commen

In Surprised By Joy, C.S. Lewis tells of a erroneousness that he had observed regarding comfort or what he calls thrills. Lewis realized that what he had first thought to be joy, was actually not joy at all because it began to fade away. He had assumed that he was seeking after(prenominal) the thrill itself. He says, And there lies the deadly error. Only when your whole aid and desire are fixed on something else ... does the thrill arise. It is a by-product. Its very being presupposes that you desire not it but something other and outer(prenominal). He realized that when he cogitate his attention on obtaining the thrill of joy, that he was actually focused on himself. True joy is not experienced when one desires joy itself, but when one has his eyes on something else. As believers, the other and outer that we have the opportunity to look to is God God draws us to Himself, our someone responds to Him and in return, He fills our soul with joy. That is portrayed in the words of t he Psalmist who says in Psalm 433-4, O send our Your light and Your truth, Let them scat me Let them bring me t...