Happiness or Righteousness

Uncle D. read this from LLoyd-Jones, on the Sermon on the Mount:
"Blessed-or happy-are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness. They are the
only true happy people. Now the whole world is seeking for happiness; there is no
question about that. Everybody wants to be happy. That is the great motive behind
every act and ambition, behind all work and all striving and all effort. Everything
is designed for happiness. But the great tragedy of the world is that, though it
gives itself to seek for happiness, it never seems to be able to find it. The present
state of the world reminds us of that very forcibly. What is the matter? I think the
answer is that we have never understood this text as we should have done. Blessed are
they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness. What does it mean? Let me put it
negatively like this. We are not to hunger and thirst after blessedness; we are not
to hunger and thirst after happiness. But that is what most people are doing. We put
happiness and blessedness as the one thing that we desire, and thus we always miss
it; it always eludes us. According to the Scriptures happiness is never something
that should be sought directly; it is always something that results from seeking
something else."
"The world is seeking for happiness. That is the meaning of its pleasure mania, that
is the meaning of everything men and women do, not only in their work but still more
in their pleasures. They are trying to find happiness, they are making it their goal,
their one objective. But they do not find it because, whenever you put happiness before righteousness, you will be doomed to misery. That is the great message of the
Bible from beginning to end. They alone are truly happy who are seeking to be
righteous. Put happiness in the place of righteousness and you will never get it."