Does God want us to be happy? I know, it is a scary thing to think of. We all want our God to be a God who protects, provides and comforts us. We want a God that will make us happy. 

But I don’t know if God really cares if we are happy or not in any given instant. I think His heart breaks when our heart is bleeding. I think that He will go to the ends of the universe and back to protect us, provide for us, and comfort us. But nowhere in the Bible does it talk about being a disciple of Jesus making us happy. 

You know, the thing Jesus talked about more than anything else was the Kingdom of God. Not evangelism, not happiness, and certainly not comfort. 

So why is it that when we are unhappy, we become stagnant. Why is it that happiness has become an indicator of how much effort I want to put into life? Why is my reliance on Jesus entirely dependent upon the level of happiness I have in me?