Joy, delight & contentment

'What were we made for? To know God.
What aim should we set ourselves in life? To know God...
What is the best thing in life, bringing more joy, delight, and contentment, than anything else? Knowledge of God...
Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord. The world today is full of sufferers from the wasting disease which Albert Camus focused as Absurdism ('life is a bad joke')...
What makes life worth while is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance; and this the Christian has, in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more esalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?'
J I Packer, Knowing God, pp36f.