The Two Sides of Contentment

   I am trying to get my mind around "contentment" this morning, specifically what might be good about it and what could be damaging to my soul.

   Matthew 5:5, in The Message:

“You’re blessed when you’re content with just who you are—no more, no less. That’s the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can’t be bought."

   Matthew 5:5, in the New King James Version:

"Blessed are the meek,
    For they shall inherit the earth."

   The part that strikes me this morning and how I relate to it (my translation):

   Be content in who you are, find out how to be the satisfied owner of all God wants for you.

   Maybe I should relate it to Solomon's words in Ecclesiastes where he talks about "a time for each thing under the sun".

   There is a time to be content in your standing and a time not to be. The trick is to know which is which for me. Basically it is being content when I am where God wants me to be, and I know how to live in that attitude, not grabbing for more of stuff or position.

   But I do not want to be content if I am not where God is. I want to be satisfied in the spot He has me, and know that where that is, is right.

   It all sounds so easy, sitting back with a big smile on my face and being satisfied, but, alas, not if it is because of what I have done, or have, but only when I know God and His will and am there in it.

   Could it be where both God and I are content, at the same time?

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