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Discontentment




It is so easy to feel discontent with where we are right now, at this moment. But living somewhere else, getting married, having a baby, or getting a job won't change our feelings. I will end up being discontent even if those things happen, unless I learn to trust in Christ for my ultimate fulfillment. 

 I am learning this every day. Sometimes I think, "Finally, I've arrived!" but then hours later, I am back where I was before. Why is my pride and false humility so hard to kill? The spirit is always warring against the flesh. It seems so hopeless at times.... but there is victory in Christ! As I pray and read His Word and seek His will, He gives me the spiritual strength I need for each day.


“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man 
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him."
But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.  For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
1 Corinthians 2:9-12

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.  For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their own craftiness”; and again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.” Therefore let no one boast in men.
1 Corinthians 3:18-21 




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