Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Bible search results for happiness
Isaiah 52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
Lamentations 3:17 my soul is bereft of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is;
These are the search results for happiness. The bible does not say very much about happiness. A search for just the word happy doesn’t reveal all that much, but here is one example.
Deuteronomy 24:5 “When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.”
That miscellaneous law allowed a man to be happy but it was not the law that made him happy. We cannot legislate happiness.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Declaration of Independence
This declaration does not guarantee happiness but only recognizes the individual rights to pursue it. The chase is on. What makes you happy?
Please do not answer that question. I don’t want to know. I am not a constitutionalist. Neither am I a moralist. Nor am I a legalist.
What once seemed to make me happy no longer pleases me. Those things were sinful and sin was never satisfied and sought to entrap me in an endless search for the trill that does not last and needs to to be fed constantly. This is what sin does, in it there is no lasting satisfaction.
Romans 14:22 (KJV) Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth. (ESV) The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves.
Faith is the key to true happiness.