This week, Randy Elkhorn joins us on the phone.

He is the author of the new book, Happiness.

You'll want to check it out, Randy.

As you know, God is happy.

Scripture tells us that God is happy.

So if God is so fundamentally and essentially happy

all the time in Himself,

why does He seem so often to be ill-tempered

in the biblical stories?

Well, I think what we've got to do is realize that sin

is a reality in this world,

and the suffering that comes out of sin

we're under the fall, we're under the curse.

Even though Christ has become a curse for us,

you know, who believe in Him,

we recognize that we still face the realities

of sin and suffering in this life.

And this sin that infiltrates the world

is a temporary condition.

I think this is the key to understanding how it is

that God could be from eternity past,

utterly happy within Himself,

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