Do you find yourself looking at the world around you and asking: “Is this how things are supposed to be?” If you have, then you're in good biblical company.

King David, who defeated Goliath and wrote many of the Psalms in the Bible, wondered that very same thing. He wondered why it was that evil seemed to prosper and flourish.

God gives us two helpful responses in times like these in Psalm 37, which tells us to wait on Him and find our delight in Him.

Those who know me well know that I'm not a particularly patient person. I want issues resolved yesterday!

So it can feel impractical to “do good and wait patiently for the LORD” (verses 3 and 7). How do we wait on and believe in a God that we can't even see?

While seeing God is a stumbling block for many people to believe in Him, we are seeing the vast majority of the world believe in things we cannot see.

The whole world now believes in a virus that they cannot see.

Psalm 37:4 gives us this command: “Delight yourself in the LORD and He will give you desires of your heart.”

When we focus on and delight in God (and not our circumstances), God begins to change our perspective on those very circumstances.

What does it mean to “delight” in God?

Part of what it means is to admire Him for who He is and claims to be.

Atheist Ayn Rand said: “Admiration is the rarest form of pleasures.”

To delight in God is to see Him as beautiful, powerful, good and glorious.

To delight in God means to see Him as “for you.”

Many people have this idea that God is either “distant” or “out to get them.” But that could not be further from the biblical truth.

God proved that He is for you by sending His own son to die on a cross to bear your sin, guilt and shame, and thereby offering you new, eternal, and abundant life if you put your faith in Jesus.

God has your best interests in mind. You can also delight in God by enjoying His good gifts, such as family, health, abilities, jobs, nature, food and drink.

My son just turned 5 years old, and I was thinking about what it means to delight in him. It has meant spending time with him — wrestling, playing catch, hiking, talking with God, praising God, as well as finding new and creative ways to pick on mommy. And as we spend time together, my interests become his and his mine.

James Merrit put it like this: “When you want what God wants, God will always give you more than you want.”

While our circumstances may change, we have a God who never does.

Those who put their faith in God can be assured of Psalm 37:7 “Those who are evil will be destroyed, but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land.”

The pain and pleasure of this life are so short compared to eternity. That's why we are called to “fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:18)

Pastor Brady Randall is the campus pastor of Orchard Hill Church-Butler County.