Contentment

this morning I was spending time with Jesus and reading in Proverbs and Romans, and even though neither of the passages really spoke about what Jesus spoke to me about, I think it was merely sitting in His presence, asking Him to speak that brought Him to speak

I feel like a lot of times I want more.

I covet a relationship with Jesus that someone else has.

or.

a relationship that I see someone else enjoying.

or.

a life someone else is living.

I know some personalities are more prone to long after other things

but it's straight up not okay.

I have a full happy great life.

a great boyfriend, my best friend which I want to grow to appreciate more daily.

I live with amazing people.

I have amazing best friends.

I have ministry which is friendships as well.

God has given me incredible gifts to serve Him and His Kingdom.

I have the best Mom and Dad in the whole entire world.

I have the best brothers in the whole entire world.

They are my best friends.

I am so blessed.

And I feel like God just told me why do you want more

why do you want to be more all of the time

why do you always strive after more more more

and even this lesson

I feel like I have to strive to keep it in my mind this day

but I am asking God to keep it on my mind

so that I do not have to strive after it

but so it is simply His song of deliverance over me and around me

I beg you, friends to be content

to love the life that you have already be given

to take the small bit of ground you have been given to garden

and to garden it well

Martin Luther King said that if God had called him to be a streetsweeper, he was going to be the best streetsweeper, (the happiest?) there had ever been so that people would pass Him by and say, there is a streetsweeper that loves God. (paraphrased)

Build walls around what you have

and see it as your Eden

and God will make it grow.