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According to Roget's II New Thesaurus, "pleased" and "happy" are synonymous. God is pleased (happy) with our faith and obedience. Whether or not He is happy in knowing the future is irrelevant.
Remember: Isaiah 55:8-9 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." | You can be "pleased" about something, but still be a generally unhappy person. | We're not talking about a person; we're talking about God. With our finite minds, we cannot understand more about Him than what He has revealed about Himself through scripture. So it is a waste of time to wonder if God is happy about knowing the future, because He didn't say.
We only need to be concerned with how we can please Him according to the Scriptures. | 
"concerned with how we can please him"
riiiiiightttttttt.........shouldn't we be more concerned with how we treat others, instead of something we don't even know to actually exist? |
When asked concerning the greatest commandment, Jesus responded: Matthew 22:36-38 Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.
Then Jesus tells us the second great commandment; Matthew 22:39-40 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
When we place God first in our lives, everything else falls into place: Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.