Hello people. One thing I’ve realized is that contentment is a gift. And what I mean is the ability to find satisfaction in what you have right now. Because the urge to grab it all, to keep chasing more and more, to postpone simple things like joy, ease, and peace of mind until after we hit certain goals is a deception. It is nothing but a trap.
Life is short and fleeting, and the wisest way to “eat your cake and have it” is to enjoy joy, peace, and satisfaction now, while you’re still in motion. Enjoy them now while you push for more. And be settled in yourself that even if “more” never arrives, you will still have the same joy, the same peace, the same sense of fulfillment.
This is the gift of contentment.
When you understand that the pursuit of material things is really a trade for immaterial things — the inner rewards we hope those achievements will give us — it becomes clear. We chase accomplishments, status, qualifications, because we think they will finally hand us fulfillment, pride, peace, satisfaction.
But what if you could pull those feelings into your present moment? What if you could cheat life a little and feel satisfied anyway? Create a life you can be content with now. Enjoy the peace. Enjoy the joy. Live in the fullness of the higher gifts — joy, love, peace, welfare, excitement — right here in your today.
That is the victory that overcomes the world.
Because the world puts you on a spinning wheel, a rat race, dangling the carrot of achievement and telling you that joy and peace can only come after. But that is the trap.
Godliness with contentment is great gain.
The Bible, as always, drops timeless wisdom.
