In the Moment

"Should I _____?"

"Wouldn't it be better if I had______?"

"Is _____ what I'm supposed to be doing, and is this it?"

"What if I try ______ over there instead?" 

It's actually a good thing to be asking most of these probing questions, of yourself and of God, as a sort of discipleship tune-up. Simply because it's easy to wander off course and realize you sometimes need a two-by-four awakening to realize you've been fixing your eyes on what really doesn't matter all that much after all. Like that thing you wished you'd never bought as soon as you walked out of the store...

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."

- Emily Dickinson

...Contentment may be about being satisfied with having just enough of just about anything, but maybe more importantly, it is not about "stuff" at all but about being satisfied with place and purpose — where we are in actual location, career, relationships, or in station of life at any given time. 

Because that is where God has us at the moment, and the greatest sense of contentment that I could ever know is that, no matter what, wherever I am, He is already there, and that is enough. 

Even here, even now...

“A devout life does bring wealth, but it’s the rich simplicity of being yourself before God. Since we entered the world penniless and will leave it penniless, if we have bread on the table and shoes on our feet, that’s enough … go after God, who piles on all the riches we could ever manage — do good, be rich in helping others, be extravagantly generous… build a treasury that will last, gaining life that is truly life.”

—1 Timothy 6: 6-8, 17-19, The Message

[ADAPTED FROM 6-5-16]