Good and Happy
I want to be happy. I also want my wife and children to be happy. In that sense I'm like every other father out there. Except maybe for one.
God is a Father, and He seems far more interested in us being good. Like His Son.
This view flies in the face of contemporary preaching in a movement dubbed "the Prosperity Gospel" that centers itself on the conviction that God is chiefly concerned with our happiness. He doesn't want us to be sick, or poor, or touched by any of life's troubles. He wants us to be healthy, well-off, happy King's kids.
All we need are the right tools. We need to have our minds changed about God, and we need to learn how to properly use "faith". In this view, faith become s a lever that activates God. He responds like an indulgent father by giving us whatever we ask for, and we become semi-autonomous initiators of God's blessings. We can "name it and claim it" in an ever self-indulgent pursuit of happiness.
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