How can believers find enjoyment in their relationship with God even when they don't feel like they are enjoying Him?

In this video, speaker Sam Waldron explores the concept of enjoying God and addresses believers who may struggle with not feeling a sense of enjoyment in their relationship with Him. Waldron acknowledges that the term "enjoying God" can be multifaceted and not solely dependent on emotions or feelings. While it is natural for emotions to fluctuate, he emphasizes that believers should not judge their enjoyment of God solely based on their present feelings. Instead, he encourages them to trust in God and find solid hope and wisdom in Him, even in dark and challenging times.

Waldron highlights that enjoyment of God is not limited to positive feelings or joyful emotions. Even when believers walk in darkness and experience a lack of light, they can still trust in and hope in God. 

Isaiah 50:10 (NKJV): "Who among you fears the LORD? Who obeys the voice of His Servant? Who walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD and rely upon his God."

Can you be a believer and not enjoy God? Well, I certainly think that it's possible to be a believer and not feel like you're enjoying God. This term, enjoy God, needs probably to be carefully thought about, doesn't it? What does it mean to enjoy God? We almost immediately go to our feelings, don't we?

But while that may be involved, I don't think that's the whole or the main thing about enjoying God. So I want to say to believers that are struggling and don't feel like they're enjoying God, I want to say to believers who inspect themselves and say, I don't feel a great deal of enjoyment of God. In fact, I feel things that may go in an opposite direction. I want to say, well, of course it's possible to be a believer and not feel like you're enjoying God. But I want to say, but don't judge yourself merely on the basis of your present feelings.

Feelings are passing, the very definition of emotions is that they're up and down and all around and there are all sorts of things with regard to emotions, with regard to mood swings and so forth. And we must not judge our enjoyment of God on the basis of our mood or our emotions or our feelings merely. Should we want those feelings? Should we want to feel joy and peace and believing? Of course.

Does God want us to know the peace of God which passes all understanding? Of course. But the fact of the matter is that sometimes our feelings don't cooperate. But men and women can still enjoy God without such feelings. In dark times, there can be this solid hope, even though it doesn't feel like feelings that they have that God is going to bring good out of this dark situation.

That they can have this hope and the wisdom of God that situations look chaotic and confusing. God is going to make clear, God is going to make us to know what He's doing. And so in situations like that, I think believers are enjoying God and benefiting, if I can put it that way, from their understanding of God by simply trusting in and hoping in God. There's a text of Scripture, I think it's Isaiah 50 10, which says something like, let him who walks in darkness and has no light, trust in the name of his God. Well, walking in darkness and having no light doesn't sound like having a lot of wonderful feelings.

But there is still a place for if someone is walking in darkness and having no light, trusting God in that situation. You