What is contentment? Is it just being resigned to your fate? Paul used to say, if you stop expecting much then you wont be disappointed when much doesnt come. Is that the answer? No, I don't believe that and I used to tell him he was wrong.
Contenment is accepting from God's hand what He sends, because we know that He is good, therefore it is good.
God doesn't make mistakes, everything He does has a purpose. It doesn't matter if we don't and can't see the purpose, trusting that God knows is enough. When we learn to accept that then we have contentment.
The more we choose contentment the more He sets us free, the more he sets us free, the more free we are to choose contentment. ( I read that last sentence somewhere, but can't remember where, but its stuck with me).
As a widow I'm learning contentment, not just in my physical and financial circumstances but in myself.
Contentment also means accepting yourself as you are, as God created you. I compare myself constantly and find myself always lacking in something. When you are on your own, when your fall guy has gone, self-confidence goes. That is when I have to start believing what God says and not what I say.
Contentment: knowing that God IS love and everything that He sends is because of love. It is trusting that God is there through the joy and the pain.
I can speak it, write it and now want to live it, but it's hard.
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