We live in a culture that is never satisfied. We achieve something and then immediately move on to the next thing or on to improving upon what already exists. The new iPhone came out and within 6 months the next newest version will be out. How are we ever to feel contentment with the constantly changing tides of our society? With the expectation that the more we have the more worth we have, will we ever feel true joy, happiness, or satisfaction?
I am so guilty of this discontentment. I am a combination of control, neat, approval-seeking freak. I also have the patience of a 2 year-old. This is not a good character combination folks. It puts me right smack-dab in the middle of the discontentment train on pretty much a regular basis. I like to have things organized. I like to have things clean. I like things to look nice and stylish. (You would think having 3 and 4 year old boys would have smacked this right out of me- but to my unfortunate dismay, it hasn't). And when these things are out of whack, so am I. I get stressed out! You would think that someone who has helped with Code Blues and traumas would not be put out by something that seems so trivial. Negative ghost rider. I am.
So Genius, what are you going to do about it? Right now, I am praying and seeking God in all this. He has placed those without, those with little, and those with too much on my heart. It really is true, that we always seem to want what we don't have. Well, I know that contentment is possible. And I know that choosing to live a life honoring to God with our lifestyle, our finances, and our daily activities is possible. Matthew 6:25-34:
Do Not Worry
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
God has got this. But I need to clear out the clutter (literally and figuratively) and get focused on the things that really matter. All these other things...are just taking away from what really matters- God, family, friends, and living a life worthy of the One that sacrificed so much to give it to me.
