Last night. This morning. Feelings of discontentment have been swirling around me. A grumpy mood that taints Everything. I am inclined toward melancholy, can easily view through eyes of glum. I know this about myself, and yet I continue to struggle to loose myself from the grips of feeling.
...for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content. Phil 4:11
Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." Heb. 13:5
Contentment is a learned response; it is not one that wells up naturally within our hearts. I think that Paul is saying that we can train ourselves to respond with contentment, no matter the "realities." For, what is more real? Feelings, circumstances, trial, illness, brokenness or Jesus, who promises that He will never leave us. What power does this world hold and why do we so desperately try to fix it? The system is broken. There is only one Answer, one Healer. Shouldn't we look to Him to identify and do the work? Let us choose to trust that we are being held by the One who authors. It is there, in His arms, that we find contentment.
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