God the Good Source
One of the great things about God being the Creator of all things that aren't God is that He is the source of the things we usually only think about Him possessing. What I mean is that usually we think of God as possessing the quality of goodness--like there is some sort of pre-existing quality called "goodness" and God happens to have it. But God is the Creator in a deeper sense than that. Since there is nothing apart from God that wasn't created by God, even goodness doesn't exist as something separate from God that He has to bow down to.
The reason this is so great is that God Himself is the source of all goodness. He defines it, and He gives rise to it. He is good, and He is both the standard for and source of goodness.
Back in the eleventh century, Anselm took up this idea and wrote movingly about God being the source of the joy coming from any created thing:
For if particular goods are enjoyable, consider carefully how enjoyable is that good which contains the joyfulness of all goods; not [a joy] such as we have experienced in created things, but as different from this as the Creator differs from the creature. …
Why, then, do you wander about so much, O insignificant man, seeking the goods of your soul and body? Love the one good in which all good things are, and that is sufficient. Desire the simple good which contains every good, and that is enough. For what do you love, O my flesh, what do you desire, O my soul? There it is, there it is, whatever you love, whatever you desire. If beauty delights you, ‘the just will shine as the sun’ [Matt. 13: 43]. If the swiftness or strength or freedom of the body that nothing can withstand [delights you], ‘they will be like the angels of God’ [Matt. 22: 30]; for it is ‘sown as a natural body and shall rise as a spiritual body’ [1 Cor. 15: 44] by a supernatural power. If it is a long and healthy life, a healthy eternity and an eternal health is there since ‘the just will live forever’ [Wis. 5: 16] and ‘the salvation of the just is from the Lord’ [Ps. 36: 39]. If it is satisfaction, they will be satisfied ‘when the glory of God will appear’ [Ps. 16: 15]. If it is quenching of thirst, ‘they will be inebriated with the abundance of the house of God’ [Ps. 35: 9]. If it is melody, there the choirs of angels play unceasingly to God. If it is pleasure of any kind, not impure but pure, God ‘will make them drink from the torrent of His pleasure’ [Ps. 35: 9]. If it is wisdom, the very Wisdom of God will show itself to them. If it is friendship, they will love God more than themselves and one another as themselves, and God will love them more than they love themselves because it is through Him that they love Him and themselves and one another, and He loves Himself and them through Himself. If it is peace, for all of them there will be one will, since they will have none save the will of God. If it is power, they will be all-powerful with regard to their wills, as God is with His. For just as God will be able to do what He wills through Himself, so through Him they will be able to do what they will; because, just as they will not will anything save what He wills, so He will will whatever they will, and what He intends to will cannot not be. If it is honours and riches, God will set His good and faithful servants over many things [Matt. 25: 21, 23]; indeed, they will be called ‘sons of God’ and ‘Gods’ [Matt. 5: 9] and will in fact be so; and where the Son will be there also they will be, ‘heirs indeed of God and co-heirs of Christ’ [Rom. 8: 17]. If it is real security, they will indeed be as assured that this same [security], or rather this same good, will never in any way fail them, as they will be assured that they will not lose it of their own accord, nor that the loving God will take it away against their will from those who love Him, nor that anything more powerful than God will separate God and them against their will. (St. Anselm, Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works, edited by Brian Davies and GR Evans, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 101-02.)
Come to God and get more and truer joy than from any other source. God is good, powerful, and all-knowing, so if you treasure any of these things, come to Him.
Are you compelled by love? By wealth? By power? By comfort? By health? By the possibility of living forever? By beauty? By knowledge? By hunger or thirst or wisdom or peace or justice? Whatever compels you, whatever drives your life, whatever keeps you up at night, whatever thrills you--whatever it is that you find good in the world is found in greater abundance and purity in God than anywhere else. Come to God, and drink from the undiluted source!
