"Happiness 101..."   

And, when you think about it, isn't that what most of us are longing to find in our lives today, a sense of true and lasting happiness. This search for happiness has made its way to the halls of many of our most prestigious universities. At Harvard, Professor Tal Ben-Shahar teaches a psychology class that has been nicknamed Happiness 101. This course is so popular that nearly 900 students enroll for it each semester.

But the question that begs to be asked is, can the search for genuine happiness really be found in the discipline of psychology? For the past several weeks I have been presenting a series on the Ten Commandments that I've titled, The Pursuit of Happiness. One of my conclusions from this series is that sinful beings really don't have a clue as to what it means to be happy, at least not the kind of happiness that our creator has designed for us to experience. Our idea of happiness many times is simply having things our way, regardless of how it may impact the lives of others. But, as we have seen during our series, God's idea of happiness not only protects the happiness of others, but the happiness of the one who seeks to follow it as well.

This Sabbath we continue our series as we focus on commandment nine that prohibits lying, with the message, Jehovah's Witnesses. What did God intend with the prohibition of lying? Does it mean that we should never tell a lie, even if our lives are at risk, or does this prohibition have much deeper meaning than we first imagined? I look forward to seeing you this Sabbath as we look to God's word for the answers.