Crazy Happiness in Christian Enlightenment

By Cohmi Coh

This book is about leading you to experience the crazy happiness in life. I called it crazy because it is a kind of happiness that once you experienced it, you will never be able to explain by your lips how happy you are. This is not an exaggeration! This is really an indescribable happiness! I already heard a lot of testimonies about this kind of happiness that's why I am hoping that you too will be under this kind of happiness. And you will experience this extraordinary happiness through the extraordinary miracle of God that I called in this book "Christian Enlightenment."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cohmi Coh
• Release date: Dec 20, 2013

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Crazy happiness in Christian Enlightenment

By Cohmi Coh

Copyright 2013 Cohmi Coh

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Table of Contents

Introduction - Why I wrote this book?

Chapter 1 - Christian Enlightenment

Chapter 2 - Extraordinary transformation

Chapter 3 - Rejoicing in the midst of suffering

Chapter 4 - The glory of God we are beholding is only a glimpse

Chapter 5 - Refocused eyes stop the flow of our happiness

Chapter 6 - True enlightened Christian has the heart of giving

Chapter 7 - Why people loved the fallen world?

Chapter 8 - Having faith is only a sign that we are already enlightened

Chapter 9 - Jesus died not to offer but to bring the salvation

Chapter 10 -Maximizing your seeing for the sake of your happiness

Chapter 11 - Reaching your highest joy while in this world

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Introduction: Why I wrote this Book?

The ultimate goal of this book is to lead you to experience crazy happiness. I called it crazy because it is not the kind of happiness that you experienced through following the common secular tips of the world on how to be happy [ex. Be a positive person, Always be with a group of happy people, Say to yourself every morning that you are happy, Always sleep early at night]. It is not also a happiness that you get in laughing with your happy friends because Bible told us also that "even in laughter the heart may ache…" (Proverbs 14:13) Meaning, you can laugh and at the same time, have sorrow in heart. Laughter is not always a manifestation of happiness! I called it crazy because I am talking to a kind of happiness that even you, the one who will experience this kind of happiness, will never be able to explain by words how happy you are in your life - you will be crazy in experiencing this happiness because it is really, really, really an indescribable happiness! And you will experience this crazy happiness only through experiencing the extraordinary miracle of God that I called in this book Christian enlightenment.

My prayer to you

I am praying that as you finished reading this book, my title in this book will not be just a memory to you but will be a reality in your life. I pray that may you be the kind of person who is experiencing crazy happiness in Christian enlightenment.

Chapter 1: Christian Enlightenment

True Happiness? Are you seeking for this true happiness not just simply happiness? Then, I want you to know that you are not alone in seeking the road to the true happiness in life because since ancient times, all people, Christians or non-Christians, are already seeking it.

We are created to be happy

Diogenes, one of the ancient Philosophers, lived like the poorest man in the world in streets because he believed that if he will never be attached on any material things, he will become happy.¹ He is one of the founders of cynics – it comes from the Greek word kunikos that literally means dog-like. He lived like a dog in the streets only because of happiness.

In 1990s, newly graduate student named Christopher Johnson McCandles, donated all of his money that cost 24,000 dollars to a Charity and then, lived to the wilderness. Before he died in August 18, 1992, he wrote in the destroyed and abandoned bus – the place where he is living in the wilderness: "I have had a happy life..."² Hmm…Wait! Did you notice his last words? Obviously, his driving force in doing what he is doing is to experience true happiness in life. And he extremely believed that it will never be found by having a lot of money. He lived in the wilderness without money only because of happiness.

According to FBI’s Uniform Crime reporting data last 2011, there were about 750,000 drug arrests for marijuana made nationwide.³ What is something inside in that marijuana that leads most people to desire it? It is because according to the common experience of many, it makes them happy but actually the truth is it is only a temporary happiness. One of my classmates in college, user of marijuana, said when we are still in our college days, "Since I started smoking weed, I have perceived happiness within and stop having care in the world." People desire marijuana even they know that they will be in jail for using it only because of happiness.

What else can I share about stories of people seeking happiness? There are lots of stories of it – they are uncountable like the uncountable stars in the sky! Because we have lots of different stories about achieving happiness, it is not surprising anymore that most of the philosophers concluded that the pursuit of happiness is the heart of humanity. Aristotle said, Happiness is the chief end of human action⁴ and Blaise Pascal said, All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end⁵ that’s why when you heard a man who is saying, "I am not seeking happiness in life, what that man is really saying is this: My happiness is not to seek happiness in life." The truth is even the desire not to seek happiness is actually driven by an inborn passion of humanity of seeking happiness. We are human beings created for seeking happiness.

We are created for God’s glory

Philosophers didn’t know that the thought they have that we are human beings seeking to be happy is actually what the Bible is saying that we are created for God’s glory – we are called to see God’s glory. God said to Isaiah, "…bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth, everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory whom I formed and made." (Isaiah 43:6-7) The pursuit of happiness and the pursuit to see God’s glory