Contentment

Last night while reading Lies Women Believe by Nancy Leigh Demoss I realized that one of the lies I believe about God is that he alone isn’t enough. I recently did a study on what it meant to be content in Christ, and although I came across some amazing scriptures that stressed the importance of Christians trusting solely in the lord… my life style didn’t show that I understood what the scriptures expressed. As I read Lies Women Believe I started thinking about my mother and how painful it would be if she were to die. I know this is a touchy subject for most… I mean no one wants to think about a loved dieing…but it made me feel uneasy because I realized how much trust and dependency I put in my mom to guide and comfort me. I thought if God did see fit to call her home I would be alone…this isn’t true… if I am a child of God…God will ALWAYS be there…Even when my earthy mother isn’t…It will be painful, but I don’t have to feel alone because God my father said he will NEVER leave nor forsake me…Shelley(my mother) never promised me that…and although I grew up believing she did…that’s something she could never live up to…But Jesus Christ can and will be there to sustain me even in the mist of great lost…The idea of my mother dieing hunts me and is the scariest reality… but even scarier then that is professing that I am a Christian and not fully depending on him…I realized that a benefit of being in a relationship with Christ is that its ETERNAL… I had as dream last night and all though it was a tad bit strange (like most of my dreams) one thing in the dream really spoke to my spirit…in my dream I was being attacked …my life was in serious danger…it was dark…I began to cry out for help…my S.O.S cry filled the atmosphere …but no one… not one person responded…no one was in sight…I then began to cry out to the Lord… JESUS …JESUS…JESUS… then instantly I was shielded… This morning I realized that that’s how life is…I cry out for people and no one comes to my aide…anyone is in sight… But if I believe that Jesus is alive and the same spirit that rose Jesus from the dead on the third day lives in me…I AM NEVER ALONE… and when it seems there is no way out of trials, temptation, heart ache, pain, sickness, loneliness, self condemnation, darkness, I can simply call out to him and he will protect me… I can TRUST that GOD will never leave me…This is a dieing world and all that’s in it is dying…my friends, my family, my career, my plans, myself, but God is LIFE…and if I hold on to that truth regardless of how lonely I feel I can firmly stand!!!! And I can be CONTENT in my GOD and GOD alone…
(Jeremiah 17:5-7)

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