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Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Content in the Chaos
When everything turns upside down...
From out of nowhere comes the call...your landlord has decided to sell. No more, no less. Just an emotional roller coaster for the next 4 months.Why?
Why does the next step of our adventure scare me so incredibly?
Why can't my emotions focus on the fact that God has never let us down before instead of fluctuating between the high hopes of my unaffordable dream house and the reality of our finances and loan options.
I know that I am to be content... why is that such a hard ask? To rest in the facts of God's goodness, grace and provision of what I need (note: not want). Contentedness - the art of using what I have for God's glory, not my own selfish pleasure. The feeling that just because someone else has it does not mean that I deserve it. The true joy in anothers gain and true sorrow for their loss, instead of the comparison game, the "it's not fair" mentality and the search for joy in circumstance and stuff.
The guilt of if I had... or if I hadn't... if I was more... or less.
In fact the problem is that it's all about me...the self indulgent, self centered, self pleasing me who fails to grasp the blatantly obvious.
It's about Him, His plans, His loving provision of either gain or loss, His ultimate control in every circumstances and the fully grasping of this...
even when everything turns upside down.
From out of nowhere comes the call...your landlord has decided to sell. No more, no less. Just an emotional roller coaster for the next 4 months.Why?Why does the next step of our adventure scare me so incredibly?
Why can't my emotions focus on the fact that God has never let us down before instead of fluctuating between the high hopes of my unaffordable dream house and the reality of our finances and loan options.
I know that I am to be content... why is that such a hard ask? To rest in the facts of God's goodness, grace and provision of what I need (note: not want). Contentedness - the art of using what I have for God's glory, not my own selfish pleasure. The feeling that just because someone else has it does not mean that I deserve it. The true joy in anothers gain and true sorrow for their loss, instead of the comparison game, the "it's not fair" mentality and the search for joy in circumstance and stuff.
The guilt of if I had... or if I hadn't... if I was more... or less.
In fact the problem is that it's all about me...the self indulgent, self centered, self pleasing me who fails to grasp the blatantly obvious.
It's about Him, His plans, His loving provision of either gain or loss, His ultimate control in every circumstances and the fully grasping of this...
even when everything turns upside down.
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