God Does What Pleases Him

Psalms 115:3 (NIV)
³Our God is in heaven; He does whatever pleases him.

Two important things to understand about our God.
First, our God is in heaven.  He is high and above all things, above all of us.  He is not of the world.  In fact, He is the Creator of the world!  That's why His ways are not like our ways, and His thoughts are not like our thoughts.  He is not worldly in His thinking, His analysis, and His basis of making decisions, or guiding and planning our lives.  He is in heaven.

Many of us make the mistake of bringing our thoughts, our analysis and our understanding of life, of what we need, of what is best of us to God, and expect Him to answer in the way we understand things.  He is in heaven.
When our Lord Jesus taught His disciples to pray it began with "our Father in heaven...".  Always remember this when we pray.

Second, He does whatever pleases Him.
God does not exist to please us - This is one of the most deceptive teachings that we find today.  Many preachers today make it look like God exists to grant what we desire, to make us feel good in this life, to make all our desires come to pass.  They make Him like a genie.  Rub the lamp in the right way and out he comes to grant our wishes.  That is not the God who reveals Himself in His Word.
He does whatever pleases Him.  Why?  Because God is holy, He alone is righteous, He alone is pure and true.  We are sinful, and our hearts are prone to wander away from Him, and seek only what we want.
This is why not all our fleshly desires are granted.  It's what He desires, what pleases Him that He accomplishes in our life.

This is why there are so many things that happen in our life that we don't understand - trials, hardships, problems, etc.  Now, this does not mean that God is pleased with trials and hardships...no.  What pleases God is what happens in our hearts that glorify His name.  What pleases God is that no matter what circumstance we go through it is He whom we seek, who we trust in.
James 1:2-4 (NIV)
²Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, ³because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. ⁴Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
1 Peter 1:6-7 (NIV)
⁶In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. ⁷These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

But it's not just trials.  It's also about blessings.  Every blessing that God brings to our life is that which pleases Him.  And He knows exactly what to bless us with, so that we do not put our trust in the blessing, and at the same time He gives what we can enjoy.
1 Timothy 6:17 (NIV)
¹⁷Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.

This is what pleases God - no matter what blessing we receive, our hope is in Him, and not in the blessing itself.

And as we continually worship Him, meditate on His Word, our minds are renewed so that we understand what His will is.
Romans 12:2 (NIV)
²Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

God's will is good for us, it is pleasing to Him, and perfect...for it is His will.
God is in heaven, and He does what pleases Him.