a young man recently who was on the cusp of doing something profoundly unbiblical. When I gently challenged him, his question was, “Yeah, but aren’t you interested in our happiness?” Of course I was. I’m interested in your ultimate happiness, I told him—your happiness for this life and for the life to come. But if you decide what you can and can’t do on the basis of your current feelings about what will make you happy, you’re actually selling yourself into a kind of slavery. And you make people who