Plantinga Chapter 1

When reading this Chapter I found one quote that was of course by C.S. Lewis that would sum it all up.
      "It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted          creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."
 It really puts things into perspective. So many of us want to have that relationship with Christ, but it seems as if we done want to give up all the things of this Earth in order to have the pure infinite joy. This chapter of the book came to me while I was in church today. We were studying the book of Ecclesiastes, and the first to chapters of the book seem very depressing. It says that everything we strive for is meaningless. The nice cars, or the big house, the job that offers a lot of money. Working towards those things are like chasing after the wind. It is meaningless. At first when reading this I was very confused, but then our pastor went on to explain that we have things on this Earth that promise to make us happy. He used an example of a doctor who he used to babysit for when he was younger. This doctor always wanted to have a corvette, dreaming of owning it for his whole life. So, he finally had made enough money to by a brand new corvette, and after only owning it for a few months he sold it. Our pastor went and asked him why would he sell this car that he had waited his whole life to have? The doctor simply replied that he bought this corvette, and went out to his garage and simply was said "This is it?" I thought I would feel this great happiness that I had been longing for since I was a child, and I am still waiting for something to happen. Isn't that always how it is? There is always something that we long for, something we think we absolutely need to have, and then when we get it the satisfying feeling is not there. It is as if we are standing there with this new item saying "And?"
    Yet, we fail to realize that with God who is not of this Earth, but created it and all things in it we will not have this empty feeling when we commit our lives to him. We will have this infinite joy that will be like nothing we have ever known. We will  all the sudden forget that we ever wanted that new corvette because our yearning and longing for fulfillment will be complete. We will have ever lasting joy in him.