How many of us are truly joyfully content? Are you
content with your job, your income, your family situation, your home, your car,
and even your vacation options???
Over the years, God has helped me to grow in joy
and contentment in certain areas. I could celebrate with many of my friends as
they got married and started families years before me. Then, after Joe and I married
and prayerfully pursued fertility and adoption options for almost a decade, we
were still able to enjoy life. It didn’t mean we didn’t have disappointments
along the way, but God helped us be more focused on what He had given than on
what we didn’t have and wanted.
Solomon describes this joy in life and contentment
as a gift from God!
Ecclesiastes 5:18-20 18 This is what I have observed to be good: that it is
appropriate for a person to eat, to drink and to find satisfaction in their toilsome labor under the sun during the
few days of life God has given
them—for this is their lot. 19 Moreover, when God gives someone wealth and
possessions, and the ability to enjoy
them, to accept their lot and be
happy in their toil—this is a gift
of God. 20 They seldom reflect on the
days of their life, because God keeps
them occupied with gladness of heart.
Finding contentment and joy in the positions,
possessions and people God has given to us is a satisfying gift of God.
Would others say we are a person of discontent or
“occupied with gladness of heart?” Where do you and I need to ask God to help
us better enjoy what He has given to us?
Alice
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