Pastor SueLee Jin Perhaps you have said this yourself. It is a phrase that is proclaimed with good intentions and usually rooted in love. But it can set someone up for eventual disappointment, discontentment, as well as the pursuit of false gods. This declaration becomes even more detrimental when one assumes that GOD just wants us to be happy! While it is hard to think that God does not want you to be happy, it is far closer to the truth. God doesn’t want you to pursue happiness; He wants you to pursue Him, and not for happiness but for who He is. God wants you holy and blessed—supremely blessed—more than he wants you to be happy. We need to stop worshiping at the altar of happiness and instead worship our awe-inspiring holy God who provides us with everything that matters most.