Are You Making God Happy?

What makes you happy, friend? What makes God happy? Are you living to make yourself happy? Or are you living to make God happy?

My beloved pastor who went on to be with the Lord used to say we need to get the Word [the Bible] into us and the world out of us. In other words, we need as Christ’s followers to stop living according to the world’s ways and learn instead to live according to God’s ways. This world teaches us to be self-centered and to strive for a pleasure-filled life, personal happin...