Tuesday, February 16, 2016
I've seen quite a few articles about contentment lately, maybe they just catch my eye because my life definitely did not turn out the way I would have expected it to...
these quotes are taken from this article:
http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/love-the-life-you-never-wanted
"Is the life you're currently living the one you've always wanted?
Did you think you'd be married by now? Or that you'd still be married? If you are married, did you marry when you thought you would, or whom you thought you would?
What about your job? Not what you hoped for? Do you feel like your gifts are being wasted? Do you dream about doing something different with your life?
Maybe you wish you were living somewhere else? You long to be closer to home (or further away?)"
I think the article pointed out something very interesting... that no matter who we are or where we are in life, we can always imagine something better for ourselves than our circumstances today. It shows that nothing in this world was really meant to complete us, only a relationship with God can! But why does it seem that even though I have Christ, i'm still left wanting?
I need to see Christ as more valuable than anything I can ever earn/ anything I have lost, like the man who found treasure in a field and sold everything he had to buy the field. i need to anchor my joy and contentment in Christ, rather than in the circumstances of my fleeting life.
"The dark side of this good news is that you may have to walk through pain, disappointment, rejection, and suffering for seventy or eighty years. The brighter (and prevailing) side says God never makes a mistake in choosing good for you. Everything you experience - expected or unexpected, wanted or unwanted, pleasing or painful - is God's good plan to make you his own, to give you himself forever, and to use your life to reveal himself and his glory to the world around you."
Help my unbelief Lord!
avoid the aliens;
11:39 PM
