Hooray for summer…
Here’s what I am chewing on…
Blueberries…glorious blueberries!!! Such juicy goodness and it’s good for the body as well.
Still chewing on this…
AND
Enjoying chewing on this…
Contentment by Lydia Brownback…
I love when it seems like God seems to hammer the same message over and over…If you read the last two weeks of my cover to cover recaps…the themes have been…setting our heart on God…getting rid of those idols in our lives…truly when we desire to set our heart on God alone…we will have no need to find any substitute for God in our lives…the idols will be seen as they truly are…false…and our lives will be filled with contentment…don’t you want that? I know that I do…
Using this utensil to facilitate chewing…
Wisdom stained in yellow…
**We can be content with our lives exactly as they are today because God has promised he is always with us. Our problem really isn’t that we need something we don’t have; our problem is that we don’t find God to be enough for us. Many of us can’t even comprehend how God can meet us in our empty places and satisfy us fully. We are open to the idea, but we just don’t see how it’s possible. Sometimes we get a wrong idea about how God satisfies us. He doesn’t come to us in our own terms, taking the role of surrogate for the things or the relationships we lack. He comes in place of those things, giving us something even better…We don’t need anything more than what we have right now, today, in order to be content. The Bible says so; therefore, it must be true. The choice is ours.
**The primary reason God withholds certain blessings, the lack of which creates big, empty places in our hearts and lives, is so he can fill those empty places with himself. He cannot fill with the best what is already full with the mediocre. We will never experience Christ as best if we set our hearts on what we want God to do for us in the here and now.
**Contentment in the valleys comes when we stop fighting so hard to climb out.
**Good times are designed to come and go, but contentment is designed to be constant for all who are in Christ.
**When we turn life’s little pleasures into remedies for life’s troubles, we are setting up idols in our hearts, which actually push God aside. When a woman makes a bag of chips a habitual quick fix, according to God she “separates [herself] from me, taking [her] idols into [her] heart.” (Ez. 14:7)
**All idols are governed by the law of diminishing returns.
Another reason I didn’t include chewing on this…
Seeking contentment…just because…this is the day that the Lord has made!
Helen
~~~Find more about Contentment: A godly woman’s adornment here.
P.S. But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.”
I Timothy 6: 6-8
Moral: I don’t find contentment in my blueberries and chips…they won’t leave this earth with me…but I can find contentment with the Lord because He has provided them for me…that is cause enough to celebrate this day!
