GOD -JOY OF
“The gospel of the happy God.” Have you ever considered how happy God must be!
how supremely happy? No care, no sorrow, can ever pass across his infinite mind. He
is serenely blessed evermore. Now, when a man is miserable, and of a miserable turn
of mind, he as naturally makes people miserable, as a foul fountain pours out foul
water; but when a good man is superlatively happy, he imparts happiness. A happy
face attracts many of us, and a happy temperament, a quiet mind, a serene
disposition, why, a man who has these, inevitably tries to make others happy; and it
is, I suppose, because God is infinitely happy, that he delights in the happiness of his
creatures. 758.368
He is the happy God, and would have those round about him happy. 1122.400
Do you not know that his name is the happy God, and nothing gives him greater
happiness then to give happiness to his creatures. 2211.356