David knew the delight of the feast of time spent with God in his invitation to us to taste and see that God is good (Psalm 34:8 NIV). And I bet David could have had his choice of any kind of food or fascination at any time day or night! He could have wedding food all day, every day, if he wanted. But he knew that his deepest hunger/appetite could only be satisfied with the Presence and power of his Good God.
With this truth in mind, he (and many others in Scripture) proclaimed the incomparable goodness of our Good God for any day past or present and all days yet to come. They knew the unchanging truth that our unchanging God never has nor ever will fail to bring good from anything with any of His children for any and all times.
Only God can make the distasteful into the delightful.
Only God can change side effects into signs for His exaltation.
Only God can turn fears into freedom.
Only God can convert redirected outcomes into personal opportunities for growth.
And not only can He do all of this (and far more!), He surely does do that (and far more!). He does bring good for those who love Him and have been called according to His purpose (Romans 8:28 ESV).
To me, the fact that God will do, not just He can do, is huge for me in terms of faith. I don’t struggle with believing God can do anything anywhere anytime for anyone. I struggle with believing that He will do even one thing more for me.
That’s why I keep praying this – Lord, please help me in my unbelief (Mark 9:24). I pray that day after day while holding out the littlest seed of faith in a fist tightly clenched against storm winds of denial, defeat, and disappointment.
Those six words come from way down deep inside most every day.
This is a visceral prayer for me every day.
Yet every day, it’s staggering to try and list all the good things God does for me every single moment of every single day. I know about lacking nothing, green pastures, still waters, goodness and mercy following (see Psalm chapter 23). I know about the more I can’t think or imagine (see Ephesians 3:20-21). I know about nothing being impossible for God (see Jeremiah 32:17).
But my knowing seems stuck in my head instead of growing in the soil of my soul.
So, I stagger and struggle and stammer daily for a bolder and braver faith that won’t let me settle for anything less than holding hard to my God Who holds me fast.
Christ Himself tells me to keep on asking for more. To ask with a boldness not of my own doing but a boldness of His own giving (see Ephesians 3:12 and 2 Corinthians 3:12).
And because of this, I dare stretch out my withered dry faith and ask for more from my Jesus. For more light and life, help and hope, courage and constancy, perseverance and purpose, strength and salvation, and numerous other requests for the needs of so many in my life. All the while, I know there are countless others whom I don’t know or know how to pray for them.
But God knows them and me, too.
There’s so many needs demanding a God bigger than I can think or imagine. Isn’t it wonderful that He is the God far bigger than I can think or imagine?
And here’s the deepest beauty of that truth – no one or nothing can ever be bigger, stronger, greater than our God!
Only God can satisfy.
Only God will satisfy.
He can and He will satisfy all of us held in the tension of the now and the not-yet.
He is our hope of glory for today and tomorrow (see Colossians 1:27).
written by and copyrighted to Beth Madison, Ph.D., 2025.
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