Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Contentment
One thing the Lord has been doing in my life is teaching me contentment. For the longest time, my favorite channel was the home and garden channel. All those extravagant houses, $100,000 home improvements and back yards that look like they belong at a resort. I found myself wanting all that stuff. Then I read in the scripture about lust. No, not the sexual kind, but the kind that makes you want to have what others have.
Paul and I were reading through the witnesses of Jesus: Peter, James, Jude, John. We found that they referred to the subject of lust, but in a way that made me think about riches. About how they condemn the rich. My thinking started to change. I started to think about how contentment....
....and then I started to feel contentment. Contentment with our home, contentment with my 1993 Bonneville, contentment with my appearance, with our yard, with my stuff.
I think this whole idea of acquiring more and more; the "keeping up with the Jones's" mentality, it can really take away something that God wants us all the have, contentment.
Jennifer at 2:23 AM
2 Comments:
AMEN!!
I'm finding it hard to move, because I'm so content here! Content with my home...content with my little street. It's easy to give up something that you are bored with...but a harder lesson to release something into God's hands when you are satisfied.
My desire is to satisfied....and content. It's really not hard, when you focus on all the blessings you have...we are overflowing with good things! Food, shelter, freedom....
So true.
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