“Comparison is the death of contentment.” – Steven Furtick
You were feeling pretty good about your life until you Facebook
creeped someone else’s. Then like Chuck
Norris, discontentment roundhouse kicks you in the face. Your abilities seem average. Your bank
account appears bleak. Your clothes become commonplace. Your day looks dull. Comparison is something that comes
natural because as human beings we are competitive, but Christ is calling you
and me to a life content in Him. Paul wrote from his prison cell, “I have learned to be
content with all that I have.” I heard someone joke that she is just trying to
be content from her college dorm room bunk bed. To reach that level of faith Paul had in Christ, for many of
us it likely will not be easy. Decide
today to be intentional every day about reminding yourself and rehearsing to
God just how thankful you are for every way He has blessed you.
[And it is,
indeed, a source of immense profit, for] godliness accompanied with contentment
(that contentment which is a sense of inward sufficiency) is great and abundant gain (1 Timothy 6:6,
AMP).
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