So im not sure how many people will actually read this now that I cant publicly show all of Facebook that I wrote a new blog entry, but im still going to write. Why cant I post to Facebook?.....Because at 8:30 Monday morning I deleted my facebook! :) And yes im happy about it. Someone sent me a text yesterday and said "But you were addicted to Facebook?"......Haha my response was "Exactly". I was just far to addicted and spent way to much time on it. I spent a good while Sunday night debating on it and thinking of the pros and cons and I decided the best decision was to just get rid of it. Now in the times I want to sit down and creep on people on facebook I take out the bible instead. Working out great for me!!!! :) I don't miss it at all!
Its finally DECEMBER!!!! And this girl is oh so very happy about that fact!!! 1. because I just love the month of December! It just screams holidays, cozy fireplaces, hot chocolate (even though I don't drink it), family, shopping and christmas and my birthday of course! :) Eeek, my birthday?.....thats a topic I don't really want to go into! I'll be 26 and I'm still not completely sure how I feel about that. But its ok because when I even stress to someone about it most peoples responses are that I look 18! So I guess I shouldn't really have anything to complain about as long as I still look young right? :)
So I read something today in "My Utmost For His Highest" By Oswald Chambers and my goodness it stuck out to me like crazy and I find it to carry a lot of truth in my life at this time. The statement was simply this...."When God's will is in complete control, He removes all pressure." I love that!! Its so simply but I'm finding it to bring a lot of truth in my own life personally. I was thinking about my current state of mind at one point yesterday and trying to figure out what my current mindset of how my life was going at this current time and it just drew a blank. At first I wasnt sure what that meant. After a few moments of trying to figure out why I felt just blah i realized I was in a period of complete contentment!
Contentment is the most powerful proof to the truth of our Christian profession. As Christians we profess the glorious truth of the sovereignty of God. Our God reigns. He rules over everything, and over us, we confess. As a Christian, I confess: "I am in the hands of my heavenly Father. My life is not a product of chance, but of His will. He has made me as the Creator. And by His providence He continues to care for me and to guide all things. I am in His hand. I belong to the Lord. He is responsible for me. My God is wise and His counsel includes all things that happen. He loves me. He has forgiven my sins in Jesus Christ. He has shown me His amazing grace." That is our confession. The proof that that confession is genuine will be found in a life of contentment. We don’t not need to put your hand over fire to prove to others that you are genuine about what you say as a Christian. But a life of contentment, as you live it before the world and before your friends, is the strongest witness you could ever give of your confession.
To be content means that one believes God will meet his needs and that God will work all circumstances for his good. A godly person has found what all who are envious and greedy and discontented are looking for and never find. He has found perfect satisfaction. He has found rest in the soul, in God. Still more. Christian contentment is not repression. It is not when all of our desires and ambitions are firmly repressed within us. Christian contentment is not the ability simply to hold things down. No, Christian contentment is a gracious work in the heart. It is a giving all things over to the hand of God. It is submitting to the hand of the Lord and believing that what He does He does well. Contentment is when the grace of God is rooted in the heart, it is inward. Our contentment is not due to our possessions, to the things that God has given to us in this world. We are content in the world. But what gives us contentment is not the physical, not the material, but it is God.
Thats a first for me! Seriously! I think most of my life I have lived thinking things are either really good or just really bad. Im constantly searching for something to either make me really happy or im just completely down because of whatever circumstances going on in my life. But I honestly believe for the first time in a long time and possibly ever have I found a true point of contentment and I LOVE it!!! That’s not to say that good things aren't happening and there are not things I'd like to be better, its just to say God is in control and I no longer am not and I'm enjoying letting Him drive because I trust He knows my future better than I do. :) Contentment, therefore, is the grace of God to make God's value judgments concerning what is truly rich. True riches is to have a cleared conscience before God. True richness is to have fellowship with the living God through faith in Jesus Christ. True richness is the peace of God in my heart. True richness is the assurance that I am accepted in the beloved Son of God. May we all continue to go after God in such a way that we don’t search for or try to find contentment in life, but that we seek God so strongly that contentment in Him finds us! Have a blessed Wednesday!! <3 J
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