Never Enough - Contentment
I wrote the post below about a year ago on the old Sojourn blog. It still rings true.
"But godliness with contentment is great gain. I Timothy 6:6 (King James Translation)
Huh?
I WANT a big fat raise so that I can get some things that I actually need. I need stuff for my family. Not talking about luxuries (to me at least).
I read that scripture, and it seems sort of inside out. If I really think it through that means following the example of Christ and exemplifying God's characteristics is better, more desirable than MO MONEY!
Think about it though: would you rather have $1,000,000 or "godliness"?
Our expectations and thinking are so earthly and limited that we fail to understand what is really going on. Our lives are but a small blip on the time line of all eternity, and each of us has an eternal soul. There will come a point in our existence that our time spent in this current life will be a distant and minimal memory.
Remember when you were three years old? If you CAN remember that far back, do you remember what was important and valuable to you? No one who has attained the age of 40 (for example) would sacrifice and work overtime for a rattle or little rubber ball. That is exactly what we do when we put physical things or power or anything of this earth BEFORE our relationship with God.
Imagine a 50 year old man paying his life savings for a PlaySchool teething ring? Fool? Absolutely. Even more so the individual who devotes the best of his/her time on job, or wealth, or anything other than knowing and enjoying the one, true, living God.
Weird huh?
Adam
"But godliness with contentment is great gain. I Timothy 6:6 (King James Translation)
Huh?
I WANT a big fat raise so that I can get some things that I actually need. I need stuff for my family. Not talking about luxuries (to me at least).
I read that scripture, and it seems sort of inside out. If I really think it through that means following the example of Christ and exemplifying God's characteristics is better, more desirable than MO MONEY!
Think about it though: would you rather have $1,000,000 or "godliness"?
Our expectations and thinking are so earthly and limited that we fail to understand what is really going on. Our lives are but a small blip on the time line of all eternity, and each of us has an eternal soul. There will come a point in our existence that our time spent in this current life will be a distant and minimal memory.
Remember when you were three years old? If you CAN remember that far back, do you remember what was important and valuable to you? No one who has attained the age of 40 (for example) would sacrifice and work overtime for a rattle or little rubber ball. That is exactly what we do when we put physical things or power or anything of this earth BEFORE our relationship with God.
Imagine a 50 year old man paying his life savings for a PlaySchool teething ring? Fool? Absolutely. Even more so the individual who devotes the best of his/her time on job, or wealth, or anything other than knowing and enjoying the one, true, living God.
Weird huh?
Adam
posted by Sojourn @ 2:30 AM
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