Psalm 48:12-14
Walk about Zion, go around her,
number her towers,
consider well her ramparts,
go through her citadels,
that you may tell the next generation
that this is God,
our God forever and ever.
He will guide us forever.
God is not withholding His good and asking you to accept it on spec. He invites you to walk around, tour the place, measure it, etc... Take all the time you like. The exhibit isn't closing anytime soon. You will discover it better than you imagined. You will stop your pondering not because you've reached the end of its wonder, but because your ability to wonder will be exhausted before you've reached the end.
And once you've done that, tell the next generation. Invite them to gaze away with you. Point out what you've already noticed. Invite them to enjoy your joy. Joy doesn't decrease by being shared, but increases the more you give it away.
God is inexhaustible. We will spend our respective eternities dwelling upon His goodness without ever reaching its end. We will experience forever the joys of hunger and its satisfaction. Thirst and its slaking are respective joys. It is more enjoyable to eat when famished than to graze when bored. It is more satisfying to drink when parched than to imbibe out of habit. God's house will contain the presence of both pleasures: desire and fulfillment in simultaneous bliss forever.
Psalm 34:8
O taste and see that the Lord is good:
blessed is the man that trusteth in Him.
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