We have a crisis of discontentment today. We have more than we have ever had - but we are less content that we have ever been. So, here is the deal. If you want to be content - you have to foster a healthy discontentment. Seriously. You can't be content without it. A lot of people think of contentment as a passive state of simply being "OK" with your life. That isn't contentment. It is denial. Or worse, it is despair - the loss of hope for something better. Contentment is not a passive acceptance of what is - it is the result of an active pursuit of what is better. We are discontent because have a hunger for something we don't have. The problem isn't the hunger - the problem is that we try to feed that hunger with the wrong things. We crave something - so we try to feed it with buying stuff, or with the distraction of entertainment, or with more and greater achievement. And it doesn't work. You can't satisfy a desire for ...
A man made of mud learning to live as an image bearer of God