God Made Us to Run on Him

“God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there.”

― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Since all (good) things proceed from God, we are nothing apart from Him. Our worth cannot be found in ourselves, but only by looking at, and to, God. In God we will find our natures, because our nature is God's Image in us. So therefore if we wish to find happiness, the only actual happiness we can have, we will find it by looking to God. In Him we will find all that which is Good proceeding out from Him, ready to be received by our curiosity and wonder.

Interestingly, curiosity and wonder are at odds with greed. When we are greedy for things, we want to be the owner, the god, of them. But by trying to turn them into our right and by possessing them ourselves, they are wrested from God, and by being taken out of Himself, they lose all that made them worth wanting in the first place. Because of this we will keep pursuing these things, trying to Contain them, but never get to them, like the carrot on a stick in front of the horse... we can only reach the goal when we know it is not ours, but God's.