Discontentment

Why Enough is Never Enough

           A few weeks ago, I was in Kearney with a friend. We were talking about our struggles in our lives and the things we wish we could change. As we sat there at the stop sign, he said something that really stuck with me. He said, without batting an eyelash, “I wonder what the next thing I am discontent with will be.” He moved on from that statement, but it remained stuck in my mind.

            I think the main reason that I wrestled with that question so much is because I struggle with discontentment on a daily basis. As I was thinking about how to write this post, I was completely and utterly confused in regards to my approach. All I knew was, I want to talk about discontentment. So, instead of talking about me and my own discontentment, I want to encourage everyone (even if it’s only a few of you) reading this post.

            I know 100% that I am not the only person that struggles with this particular issue, so I turned to the only place that whole truth can be found… the Bible. I found this verse in 2 Corinthians.

“And He has said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness’… Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.”

12:9-10

            This verse resonates so much with our human nature. When we are discontent, we are longing for something. We can find peace in knowing that no matter what our discontentment is, God’s grace is sufficient and He will fill the longings of our hearts. The only thing we have to do is to seek Him first. We can’t focus on what is going wrong, we must look to Christ and ask what He has for us. Only then, only when we are completely fixed on Him, will we be completely and truly filled and satisfied.