Living A Life Of Contentment
"I wish I had a truck like that!" "Wouldn't it be great if I had a little more money each month? What I would be able to do then!" "I just want to be doing something I love doing in life." How many times a day do we wish we were doing something else or wish that something was different in life? Lately I've been finding myself wishing something other than what is reality...and it's effecting my attitude, my actions, and my walk with Christ. Now, some things aren't bad to wish that they were different... It's not necessarily a bad thing to want to get out of debt, or to loose some extra pounds, or to find joy in your current situation; but when our discontentment with our current situation moves into coveting, it's now a whole new issue...a sin issue. So what's the difference between coveting and simply wishing things were different? Well, one might say that it first starts with how we are viewing our situation......