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1:18 p.m. - 2006-05-31 Or the online Dictionary I use reads (second definition) How do I find contentment? If its there before me and I need only to reach out and grasp it, why can�t I see it? Is it my human failings, or selfishness that stops me from living in contentment? Then load up the moving van honey. I want to live there! But it eludes me. It feels like I�m �settling� if I accept contentment as I understand it in my life today. I don�t think settling is the answer either. Settling will only come back to haunt me later, and there I�ll be discontent all over again � back to seeking contentment. The area that (I feel) robs me of contentment may very well be the figurative �thorn in my side� that the Apostle Paul speaks of in the New Testament. We never find out exactly what Paul�s figurative thorn was, but this is a man who constantly pressed on in the face of great adversity: shipwreck, imprisonment, persecution � to name a few. Yet even in adversity Paul seemed content �. or was he? Is looking for contentment not what God wants? Is it just a lure to taking our eyes off of our troubles (albeit momentarily). I suppose it boils down to - being content means making a choice to be satisfied. These are the things I ponder in my quiet time with the Lord this morning. We�ll see what he�s got to say about it.
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