Discontentment with being content?????

Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 11:15

Jeremiah Burroughs definition of Christian Contentment is " Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and loving control of every circumstance."

Gods word: "Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who stengthens me." Philippians 4:11-13

Jeremiah Burroughs: {A contented Christian} may allow some ordinary cares and fears to break into the suburbs of his soul, so as to touch lightly on his thoughts. But he will not allow, on any account, these thoughts to be an intrusion into the private room, which is wholly reserved for Jesus Christ as his inward temple.... The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment pages 23-24

Oh,  how I let these words sink into my thoughts both from Paul and then from Jeremiah. It is so hard to live in this world and be content.  I want to focus my thoughts on being content each and everyday. These last few monthes I have been struggling with discontentment. I knew something felt strange in my soul that feeling like something was either missing or out of whack?

Although I  would wake up every morning with Joy that would just fill me up. How could I be discontent with contentment?  Could it be that this might be the house that God keeps us in? We might not get another car in the next few years? Is my husband going to retire at the job he is currently in?  How can I feel so much Joy if I also feel discontent or is it that I struggle with not knowing what God has instore for us?

True Joy comes from God.  He gives me that everyday. I don't want to fear not knowing what the next few years will be like because He is incontrol of it all. He only wants the best for His children. Isn't that enough knowing God is incontrol? Shouldn't just that give us contentment?

We had  wonderful worship on Sunday I could feel God in the room as we sang and worshiped Him. He is truely wonderful!  I pray that God keeps reveiling himself to me and gives me that inward quiet peace of knowing that He is truely incontrol!

Blessings,

Ma