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A BEAUTIFUL WAY TO LIVE
Are you satisfied with your life? In other words, are you content? We are always thinking of something we need, aren’t we? But do we really need it? We can’t afford it and so we go without, and we find we live life just fine without the thing we think we need! It’s amazing what we can live without.
Oh it would be nice to have this and that fixed in our home. I look at my floors and despair. I can’t wait to throw out all our old carpets upstairs and get some wooden or wood-substitute floors. Most the tiles in my office where I am typing now are worn down to the concrete. I am so ashamed when people work in. But really, what difference does it make to how I live, except my pride! So I am content.
Contentment is an anti-stress attribute. When we stop worrying about what we can’t have and accept what we have, we no longer stress.
I read this morning in Jeremiah 31;14: ”My people shall be SATISFIED with my goodness, saith the LORD.” Oh we are so blessed. We are overwhelmed with the goodness of the Lord. So much of the world lives in poverty and we live so well in America. Millions are being persecuted and we live in peace. We have a roof over our heads, food on our tables, and more clothing than we need to wear. What are we worrying about? Instead, we should be basking in God’s goodness.
I think of the children of Israel who lived in the wilderness in tents. They had no supermarkets to buy food, no entertainment centers, no mod-cons such as washing machines and dishwashers and so on. But God said in Nehemiah 9:21: “Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that THEY LACKED NOTHING.”
Can we learn to be truly satisfied with God’s goodness to us? It’s a beautiful way to live.
Love and blessings,
Nancy Campbell
