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You know must breathe, You must drink, You must eat, You must sleep, All of this is obvious. Your body demands this just to stay alive.
Consider this you buy a car, the manufacturer tells us its needs: fuel in the tank, water in the radiator, air in the tires, oil in the crankcase, and so on. We meet its needs. It go along beautifully.
But what are our needs? Far more, Far more complex than those of any machine.
There is a spirit in man that has needs beyond material things. Unless these needs of the spirit within us are met, there will be no contentment, no true happiness.
Happiness is an inside job, so to speak.
It is the way we are made. The needs of both body and spirit must be met. Jesus pointed this out: “Man must live, not on bread alone, but on every utterance coming forth through Jehovah’s mouth.”—Matthew 4:4 yes Jesus also said: “Happy are those conscious of their spiritual need.” (Matthew 5:3)