Contentment is a hard thing. Achieving contentment can give you satisfaction, peace, and
harmony in your life. One thing that I
found is you must focus your eyes on our Heavenly Savior and not take them
off. Things of this world are going to
get in your way and rob you of this contentment.
Lydia has such a great disposition of being happy right
where she is. I understand that she is
young and has not had the pleasure of this world to influence her. However, what I can learn from her is to see
her happy right where she is. She has
full contentment of being herself.
If I am not content where I am at today, I rob myself of the
blessings that God has in store for me today.
I have robbed myself of the beauty that today has to offer. If I am not content where I am at, I can
never fully appreciate what has been given to me.
If I spend my time longing for what I had in the past, for
making things to go back to how they once were, I rob myself of my future. I cannot fully see what God has intended for
me. I cannot fully take in every
opportunity, every blessing, every hardship, and every lesson that God wants me
to learn. I am missing where God has me
placed right now.
If I spend my time looking for the future, trying to change
where God has me, dreaming of a life that does not match my current life in any
way shape or form, HUGE contentment sets in on me. I can no longer look at my life and say it is OK. I can no longer be content because I am
longing for more. Again I rob myself of
where God has me right now.
If I look at Lydia, she is completely happy with where she
is all of the time. She is happy and
content with the life that God gave her.
I have a whole lot to learn from her yet, but I am so thrilled that God
has opened my eyes to this.
It is not wrong to dream, but I need to remember that I have
to bring glory to God. I need to
remember that it is His Will and not mine.
If I completely submit myself to Him and allow Him, I will be content in
this place. In many ways I feel like
learning this lesson has made me the richest person around. He is all that I need and when my eyes are
focused upward I can find peace and rest; contentment in this place we call
life.
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