what are you leaning on???

So I decided to do what me and my ex use to do in Texas. Commercial cleaning... well I got my first contract...way cool. I started this last weekend and well on Sunday morning early on my way back home to get ready for church I heard the past from Nappanee Missionary Church and he was talking about something my aunt and I had been disgussing. All these self help books... sure there are some that are great!! But there are alot that are not so great. They try to tell you that there is a way to live a full life without God. NO maybe not by saying that blunt but they tell you things like just look at your goals and invision them happening and they will or just ignore your problems and you will glide right by. Or as the pastor at Nappanee Missionary put it... He said, imagine you are going to swim to hawaii and from California... so you begin training all you can ... and as you begin swimming you start to realize your not going to make it. All of a sudden a person in a boat comes up and they tell you just know you can get there and look at the end , just imagine yourself doing it and the prize at the end. So you begin swimming and realize you still wont make it. SO another boat comes up and the person says.... See those big waves... your just imagineing them...they are not a problem just act as though they are not there and keep swimming.
Okay so that is about what I heard and what I took from it was you know swimming from cali to hawaii is impossible ALONE. Kinda like eternal life, overflowing joy, real love, true happiness without God..these self help books are not going to make you happy and the truth is, this is what they advertise. They are trying to sell to all of us broken people the "key" or "secret" hmmm the truth is there are waves and they wont be easy, somtimes we wont get what we want but through Christ Jesus we are promised eternal life, a life of abundance, we can have joy overflowing, peace, happiness, and find love like no other. I will admit to you that I am guilty of buying "self help" books that lean on everything but "living through Christ". It is scary to see someone who millions look up to reccomend a new age book. Where they try to lead people to happiness and living a full life without God. Sad thing is as a Christian I know that life is not going to be pur bliss and this is what everyone is longing for. What do I lean on??? am I leaning on God??? I know I am guily for trying to find the 12 steps to sheer happiness.... hmm but somehow I know it just doesnt work that way. What are you leaning on?