But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me. (Psalm 13:5, 6 ESV)
This is part of Psalm 13 where David is lamenting to God “How Long? Will you forget me forever?!” We’ve all been there, and as Chandler says if you haven’t, it just means you haven’t lived long enough. No one is immune to hard times when we feel alone and abandoned.
We see the resolve that David has – he has trusted in God’s covenant steadfast faithful love, an he will take joy in Gods salvation. On this side if history, we know that God has provided salvation in Jesus, so in our lives we should be rejoicing in God providing us Jesus.
That doesn’t stop our hearts from trying to find joy elsewhere, but whatever that is it is ultimately a joy thief, not a joy giver. Horton writes “the more passionately we search for happiness as and end to itself, the less happy we actually are.”
God created it this way. We need to find our joy and worth and value in God, not in other people or other things.
Psalm 13 rightly reminds us to trust in Gods love, rejoice in Gods salvation.
Mike Ruel 
Well said bro!
Thanks Eric! Hope all is well.