SA 3:36{David had been giving a proof of his love for one who had long been his enemy, but whom he had received into friendship; and he had been giving a proof of his tenderheartedness and sympathy with the people, by weeping with them at the grave of Abner. "And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people." This was because they loved their king. They watched him, not as the wicked Pharisees watched the Lord Jesus that they might find something against Him; but with the watching of admiration and love, taking notice of the kind and gracious things he did and said. Do you thus take notice of what your King does? Does it please you to hear and read of what He has done and is doing? It must be so if He really is your King. But the "whatsoever" is a little harder; and yet, if it is once really learned, it makes everything easy. For if we learn to be pleased with whatsoever our King Jesus does, nothing can come wrong to us. Ask Him this day to make you so loving and loyal to Him, that whatsoever He does, all day long, may please you, because it has pleased Him to do it. I think He loves us so much, that He always gives us as much happiness as He can possibly trust us with, and does what is pleasantest for His dear children whenever He sees it will not hurt them; so, when He does something which at first does not seem so pleasant, we may still trust our Beloved King, and learn by His grace to be pleased with whatsoever He does.
Our yet unfinished story is tending all to this: To God the greatest glory, to us the greatest bliss. If all things work together for ends so grand and blest, What need to wonder whether each in itself is best!