Finding Contentment in the Present

How do you live in the now when you want to be in the future? 

How do you be content in the now when the hope you have shows the future as better than the now? 

How do you see the good in the struggle and, maybe even, not see it as a struggle at all? 

How did Jesus have joy when He was trying to have alone time but multitudes followed Him anyway, or when He was beat and abandoned, mocked?

These are the questions I’ve been wondering, because God has showed my husband and me a pretty awesome future that I know I would enjoy, and I have hope for the career path that I truly desire, of which God has put a desire in me. But I also know He’s called me where I am right now for a reason, and I’ve been getting lost in the future, abandoning my present, forgetting the hope I once I had for where I am. 

I have so many things to be grateful for that I have right now, and I don’t want to be like the Israelites who complained in the wilderness, who looked to other gods out of defeat instead of to the one true God out of gratitude. I don’t want pride to overwhelm me or despair to overtake me. I want to choose God and be happy with His Will.

So far, to do that, all I’ve known is to be honest with God about where I am, open up as I am now, repent, surrender, and ask for His help. So I’m going to keep doing that and let my current hope be for His help to come. Thank You, Lord. Amen. 

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