Are you content? Can you really say that you are content with your station/your lot in life? I’ve been thinking about this for a few weeks (really years, but whatever 😉). I would be willing to wager (if I did that kind of thing 😏), that most people are NOT content. Even Christians.
Why are we discontent?
✅It’s because we are always looking for the next.
✅It’s because we KNOW that our current situation isn’t all there is.
✅It’s because we are trying to keep up with the Joneses.
✅It’s because we are not comfortable with who we are.
✅(Insert your reason here.)
I heard a quote—“Until you make peace with who you are, you will never be content with what you have.” Discontentment is a peace thief! Stop it in its tracks!
Can our discontentment be of our own doing? Dare I say that? Don’t shoot the messenger but think about it. 🤔🤔
We have to CHOOSE to be content.
Here are some good scriptures to chew on and to apply to your own life:
Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. (Philippians 4:11)
But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. (1 Timothy 6:8)
IF our needs are met, we may be content. But what if they aren’t?? Discontentment can come a-calling a-gain. However, there is a better way, as described in these scriptures:
But godliness with contentment is great gain. (1 Timothy 6:6)
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” (Hebrews 13:5)
We have to look to the One who should be our Source of everything: JESUS!!!🎉🎊
✅We have to be content to know Him.
✅We have to be content to walk in His ways.
✅We have to be content in His presence.
✅We have to be content to be fully in love with Him.
✅We have to be content to find our identity in Him.
Until we realize this, we will be like a dog chasing his tail—getting nowhere fast. Our contentment has to come from Him and nowhere else.
I feel like the Lord is asking you the same question He asked me years ago, “Am I not enough?” 🫣🙌
~mnm
