I read a lot of my friends entries on Facebook (a social network on the internet) quite frequently. Many of them are positive, but there are some that no matter what is going on in their lives, they find something wrong with the situation. Reading over a couple of the posts tonight made me think of the following verses...
Philippians 4: 10-14 (The Message)
I'm glad in God, far happier than you would ever guess—happy that you're again showing such strong concern for me. Not that you ever quit praying and thinking about me. You just had no chance to show it. Actually, I don't have a sense of needing anything personally. I've learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances. I'm just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I've found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty. Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am. I don't mean that your help didn't mean a lot to me—it did. It was a beautiful thing that you came alongside me in my troubles.
How awesome would it be to feel contentment no matter the circumstance? Is that a realistic expectation to put on ourselves? Maybe, maybe not. The least we can do is TRY to find the recipe that Paul writes about in the above verses. The worst that could happen is that nothing changes. The best... everything changes!
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