Contentment:
Finidng true joy and satisfaction in where you are in the present. I tend to be one who looks either bck at the past o to the futu with longing wish I coul be anywhere else but here in the present. When I do this though I miss so much of what God has for me right now. This past Sunday at church the pastor was speaking on just this… CONTENTMENT. He was saying that There is the now there is a gap and there is where we want to be. God uses that gap to grow us to teach us and to get us to where He wants us to be.
I am learning to embrace the gap to keep my eyes on Him and Him alone and that there is beauty in the gap it's all part of the jorney that is my story… His story. Something l am leaning as well is being comfotable with being uncofortable. So many times I find myself thinking, O after the race or after this month it will be over. Whether it be, not liking the food, ants EVERYWHERE, a difficult ministry or having to "be real" with people and dealing with hard issues and processing hard things on the race. The thing is can't always be looking to these things and thinking of just "getting through" things in life. God has us where we are for a purpose and He uses these times to refine us and to make us look a little more like Him. People in the Bible had times liken this as well. David waited Moses waited Abraham waited and many others as well. They were the great people they were because God took them through certain things so they would ahve the character understanding to accopmlish the tasks God has for them.
Some times I look ahead and I just want to get settled into what God has for me and know that is what I am doing with my life, but the thing is God has me where He wants me and I am learning things now that I will need for the future so I better listen up and focus on the here and know so I don't miss a thing.
