Happiness Not Necessarily a Green Light

​Singer, Sheryl Crow has a lyric in song which is, "If it makes you happy it can't be that bad." Such is typical of the thinking of many people, they don't care what they do or who they do it to, as long as they have happiness. "I gotta be happy" they say. Now man isn't put on this earth to obtain his own selfish happiness, but to do the will of God. Matt 7.10. Acts 10.35. Phil 2.21. But when one obeys the will of God he will walk in the way that is righteous and that will automatically produce happiness in that persons life. 1 Pt 3. 8-14. Psa chapter.1. Gal 5.22-26. Phil 4.4. In the bible, we read of two Kings who committed evil in order to make themselves happy. These sins cost one king his life and the other king was driven from his empire by his own son. 2 Sam 11 & 12 chapters. 1 Kings chapter 21. But we can avoid the fate which these men suffered, if we learn to please others as well as ourselves.