I watched a movie years ago, and the main theme was God is good all the time. If this is true why don’t we feel it more often? Throughout my life I have found it difficult to find God’s goodness.
Then I realized that I didn’t find it. I wasn’t sensing His goodness because I was yearning for His provisions more than His Person. I was latched to the externals for fulfillment, my hobbies, and certainly my physical comforts. Sure he gives these things, but above all He wanted me to develop internal contentment with Him.
Meaning that there was no more bargaining, begging, tantrums, or pity parties, but a motivation to delight in Him. Psalm 37:4 inspires us to this at the highest level, “Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.” Perhaps the highest desire of our hearts is Him.
Delighting in Him is easy when we first soak up His delight in us. Zephaniah 3:17 tells us, “The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you, in His love He will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”
We should be encouraged to stop and feel this truth -all the time. He already greatly delights in us.
From Pity to Praise 