The Bible teaches that happiness depends directly on two things: 1. Our relationship with God. Our saving relationship with God. 2. What God is doing in us or what we are, our character. This is found in the Beatitudes. This depends on the first. The Bible teaches that happiness is internal. It does not depend on something external, something that is outside. Not of something good that is in us, but of a change that God has made in our interior. God says, happiness arises from an internal change.