The mind of being content.

 

RESOLVING TO BE CONTENT.

Lately, as I had a coffee with a girlfriend I shared with her about my desire of getting to drive a Range rover sport in some estimated time..hahaha. She pauses and asks me, Girl, you should be contented and happy with what you have currently and where you are.  Ooops, she must not have noticed my reaction as the weight of her comment hit me with a full blow. 

Getting to realize that I sometimes rush ahead of things, instead of greatly enjoying each moment, each opportunity, and every step of the journey, the attention of achieving the next thing (i guess some of you can relate) which always looks more alluring than what is currently before me. so, in the nutshell, am rarely satisfied completely with my current situation.

This is the bitter thing about choosing to rush or hurry through moments and life seasons with the aim of avoiding the parts that you don't like in the season. Failure to value the experiences involved in every life season by not giving gratitude to everything gained in those moments. Instead of embracing the challenges that come along during those seasons and holding on dearly to learn the lessons they bring and overcoming them with your abilities and the gifts God has given you.

For most of us, such fantasies could manifest in situations like:

If you are single, you should have the security of marriage

if you are married, you should have the freedom of singleness.

Your phone should be of the latest iPhone model.

Your clothes should be from a certain designer or clothesline collection(maybe Givenchy).

Your standards of success should be measured by some standard.

As we are caught in this cycle, we end up feeling incomplete, unfulfilled, and dissatisfied.

After long thinking(as my coffee depletes)from my friend's statement, I later realized that this vice could be discontentment. This comes in unknowingly and before you realize it, you have missed out on living in the present, the growth that comes from battling through the daily challenges, and the priceless lessons they create. BUT could contentment mean the absence of desire?

This condition of discontentment hinders our happiness and sets up a mentality in our minds that there is always something more to enable us to enjoy life normally. This just simply encourages us to get rid of the present and we look forward to acquiring the new which results in dissatisfaction.

Choosing Contentment over false fantasies is something that uniquely keeps us in substance with the fulfillment of what we have and gives us confidence in the future as we work patiently towards those future life desires.

But contentment is not an automatic facet of our personality but a skill we must adopt and apply daily to our life experiences. The SECRET is to hold strong and true to our values even when the circumstances are hard but to have a relaxed sense of wellness and mental being.

Get to understand this secret and apply it daily to enable you to hold your peace to get satisfied with what you have and holding on patiently to your expectations as you work diligently. So let this be the key to unleash the joy of fulfillment in your heart and am assuring you to make it a resolution as you get to the new year(2021). Choose to be content.

LESSON: (Quoted from the resolution for women-Priscilla Shirer) So, if you don't have it (whatever it is) it's because you don't need it. You may want it, but it's not necessary in order to accomplish what God knows is most important for your life today. Otherwise, God would have given it to you. As the bible says, he loves us too much to withhold the good from those who live with integrity. (Psalm 84:11). Get to learn the secret just like Paul discovered it in Philippians 4:11.

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