Does anybody else but me get a little disturbed that we send so many missionaries who are more willing to go overseas and talk to people rather than help America, who has turned so far away from God?

I know it's a lot easier for people to go anywhere or do anything where they will feel more welcomed.  But America, I feel if America thinks they don't need God, why would anybody else?  It'd be just a matter of time before they get just as complacent as we are.

I watched the documentary "Happy" today.  I think it makes a concept that I've forgotten come back a whole lot clearer.  You don't need God to be happy.  I'm actually pretty sure that God doesn't exist for the singular purpose to make us happy.  There are many things that people can hold onto other than God that make their life feel complete.  So that is obviously not the purpose of God in our lives.

I would say that the purpose of God is to teach us to live and love right, but that is only a small factor of His existence.  The larger purpose of God is the simple matter of our existence.  We wouldn't exist without a Creator, and we continue to exist because of Him.  God is the only thing that will transcend past, present, and future.  He exists apart from our lives, eternally.  Nothing we hold onto on earth will last forever except for God (even if our perspective of Him is wrong, He is who He is, whether we see it or not). 

All forms of happiness without Him in the center are delicate, circumstantial.  Even if the only circumstance it's dependent on is the fact that you are alive to feel it.  Only one has conquered death, and without Christ, death is the end to any happiness.  Having a Christ centered life rather than an "I'm comfortable because of how my life is going right now" kind of life is based on knowing Him for who He says He is in the Bible.  Otherwise, most of what we try to do is turn God into who we think He should be, or what pleases us at the time. 

So read the Bible, and pray.  Seek a relationship with God like you do relationships with friends and family.  You don't know them, but you want to.  And if God is who He says He is, then we want to know Him- whether we feel comfortable doing that or not.