Zephaniah 3:17

 The Lord, your God, is in your midst,
a warrior who gives victory;
he will rejoice over you with gladness,
he will quiet you with his love;
he will exult over you with loud singing.

I don't understand that. Yeah that. The verse I just copied and pasted above.

God, will rejoice, over me? with gladness?

Psh.

I remember thinking this summer, as I laid on the beach listening to my iPod,

 about this very thing. You see, many times in my life, Yahweh has deemed it

 good and profitable (and rightly so) to allow trials in my life, so that I may

 treasure Him more. That is much of how He interacts with His sheep. He is a

 jealous God, and a loving God, who loves us so much that He wants us to find

 fullness in Him alone. This is a difficult and yet wonderful truth. It leaves us to

 conclude that He Himself IS the blessing. And He is indeed enough.

I'm not about to go back on what I just said, but sometimes I wonder if I am

 missing something. I think I "get" what a lot of the American church doesn't -

 that the gospel is not about prosperity and personal fulfillment, but about the

 glory of God. But I think they may "get" something that I have no clue about :

 that God takes pleasure in the good of His people. Now, I would still say that

 that "good" includes suffering. But God delights in us as His children, and

 knows how to give good gifts.

Now, God Himself : He's enough. 

He is MORE than sufficient to provide

 my ultimate happiness, joy,

 fulfillment, and satisfaction. He alone

 is to be treasured. He is THE good

 gift. But here are some tangible

 examples of how He has given me