Are you Content Or Discontent??
Written by Sarah Ann E.

What is your answer to this question?? I mean, are you content with where the Lord has you, with what He has you doing, and even who you are? Or are you not content? We as sinful creatures tend to be discontented more times then we are contented. We always want to be somewhere else, doing something else, and being like someone else.

I have been in this situation many times. I have sometimes been in a state of total discontentment. But you know, didn't the Lord place us there, and give us that thing to do, and He definitely has created us as we are. We need to be happy with what the Lord has given.

Recently I have been discontent because I think that I am not being of real use to Him. My heart is on the mission field, pointing and winning souls to Christ. Here in the States it seems that there are too many good Christian people and they need to be sent all over the world to preach the gospel to souls that are lost and dying. But I know that the Lord has placed me here for a purpose. I know that I am in the center of His will, doing what He wants me to do. I am being prepared by Him to be used in a greater way to serve Him. He wants His best for me. I do not have to worry about that. He knows exactly what He is doing and knows what is at the end of the path for my life. I just have to trust Him now with what little of the path I see. He will make known to me more of the path when He sees fit.

Then, from another point of view. When I was on the mission field, I was not content. I was a spiritual leader there, where as I preferred to be a follower. Being a spiritual leader is not an easy task. Many people are looking to you for guidance and they follow your example. The example part is very hard. When you slip, and you see others follow you, you know that you were an influence on them. I am speaking out of experience.

One way that I am sure all of us have been discontent in, is in the area of waiting for a husband. It is a natural feeling of a young lady to want a husband, but that doesn't mean that we do not have to control our thoughts and actions to please the Lord. I tend to look at a couple and long to have a husband like that. But I shouldn't do that. The Lord will send the perfect one in His perfect timing. We need to be happy with the person, a single young lady, that we are. Take this time of waiting and make it a time of growing closer to our wonderful Lord and preparing to be a godly woman for the right godly man someday. A quote that I read in an Amish cookbook said that, "We have to be the right one to find the right one." How true that is. Here is a poem that caught my eye in my devotional book, Streams in the Desert and was a great blessing to me. It has to do with what we are talking about here.