People are you allowing discontentment to guide your life; if you are, stop the discontentment immediately and “think” contentment or you’ll be a miserable person throughout your entire life? Discontentment eats people alive and leaves them helpless performers in everything they attempt to do…discontentment equals discouragement, unhappiness and stress.
In the Holy Bible, King James Version, and in the New Testament Book of Philippians 4: 11 – 12, it tells people, “Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.” “I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.”
I’ve seen many people throughout life that are “never” content with anything they get or anything they do. It’s my belief that people should be content in their lives and to wait upon God to guide them in the right path in their lives. Discontentment causes serious trouble in people’s relationships and in their children’s lives too.
It’s my belief that God’s desire for people is to mature in his word and to wait upon him to lead them during different stages in their lives. There’s not a person on this earth whose life runs smoothly every day and there’ll never be. All people suffer trials and tribulations and many times people will ask God, “Why did you not answer my prayer as I requested?” People I’ve learned throughout life that the best things that have ever happened to me are not getting some of the prayers I’ve asked for because God knew his plan and my prayer was not in his plans.
It’s my belief that people grow from their mistakes and their trials and tribulations; and it ages and matures people to be able to accept happenings that will come later on in their lives.
Have you ever noticed a person who is discontent and easily finds fault in where they live, their jobs and many other factors in their life, it follows them? They’re happy for a while but it is short-lived until they’re discontented again. Discontent is their best friend because it gnaws constantly at their soul and mind leaving them uneasy until they must move on to something different and if they don’t get a grip, it’ll end up ruining their life. They never reach goals or finish to the end any project to reach an accomplishment.
It’s great when people realize that contentment allows them freedom to bloom and to ripen in one place and they don’t have to be searching and searching for a new home, a new car, weight loss, new job…new wife, etc. It’s my belief people are to be content and happy when they’re poor and also when they’re rich. Be content with “what” God has provided for the period people are living in and to be thankful for it.
People who are “never” content and are constant complainers never find “happiness;” their dissatisfactions lead them to depression and fear. In the New Testament’s Book of Hebrews 13: 5 it tells people, “Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have; for he has said, “I will never leave you, nor forsake you.”
God’s word is very plain in the New Testament’s Book of Timothy 6: 6, “But godliness with contentment is great gain.”
People God will grant his children grace to achieve contentment in their daily lives when they stop and allow him to do so. Let contentment be their every goal and committed achievement in their life and allow the mind to squeeze out discontentment and to learn to wait on God. When people do this they’re allowing the buds of a rose bush to blossom and flourish with beautiful blooms, stamping out any discontentment causing them to miss an important mark in their life.
Barbara Kasey Smith is the writer of this article and it is based on the Holy Bible, King James Version, and in the New Testament, Books & Verses as Stated.