Happy are the people whose God is the Lord. Psalm 144:15bHappy is the man whose hope is in the Lord his God. . . . Psalm 146:5 Happy is a man who finds wisdom and who acquires understanding. Proverbs 3:13 The Scripture is very clear about what makes us, or ought to make us, happy. I want to be clear that I am not talking about joy, or peace, or feeling good about something. Rather, I am talking about a genuine deep and abiding happiness that is sufficient for this present life. In his book “Authentic Happiness” Martin Seligman, one of the founders of Positive Psychology, describes happiness as consisting…