Learn and study your God for He alone is the fountain and source and well-spring of all true and real happiness. Why, then, is God truly happy?  First, God is truly happy in Himself. He has perfect fellowship with each of the divine and eternal members of the Godhead.

God is an infinitely happy God.  The happiness of God means that God finds infinite, eternal, delightful joys in and of Himself. God is supremely happy. He is a rejoicing God. Paul speaks of the glorious gospel of the “blessed God” (1 Timothy 1.11). Isaiah 62.5 speaks of God rejoicing over His people. This signifies deep and profound glory that God exudes in Himself and in His character. He rejoices when sinners come to faith (Luke 15.7). This marvelous attribute that springs from God’s character is a most exhilarating and breathtaking quality flowing from the divine nature because it teaches that God is a God of emotion, of relatability, of infinite and boundless joys. And He can relate to us. Imagine that for a while!

As has been said by the Puritans: the happiness of God consists in the knowledge of Himself, and his own perfections, and His wondrous and infinite delights in them. God — and God alone — is the perfect and ultimate object of His own happiness. It has been well said that the knowledge of God consists of His own happiness and so our knowledge of God is what produces our real happiness as well. The more we know God, the happier and more joyous we become. 

For God to be blessed means that He is infinitely joyous and receives infinite delight in Himself.

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