Daily Devo: June 27 Thankful Contentment

Daily Devotional starting our day the right way!

Life with 6 kids means interruptions, like a lot of interruptions. Today was one of those interrupted days so this devo is kinda extremely late even though I was up at 5:30 am!  I find this to be quite hilarious since today's topic is contentment. :)
Being thankful means being content. Being satisfied with God means being content with God. Knowing with all your heart that God is enough means being content with God in every circumstance.
Look at 1 Timothy 6:6-10.

But godliness actually is a means of great gain when accompanied by contentment.  For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.

It's a great gain to combine godliness with contentment. So many times we are trying to add to our storehouses for whatever reason, yet we forget that in a breath we will be gone leaving it all behind (Matt 6:19-21) We say our prayers giving thanks and yet in the same sentence ask for more. Not that it's wrong to ask as God actually tells us to ask for what we NEED, but most of the time we confuse need with want. We have forgotten how to define enough and rest in it. "Enough" is elusive and a term we use loosely like it exists somewhere in retirement or a fairytale. We are not content with God or His blessings because nothing and no one is ever enough. We need to be thankful that He has made the sun to rise again today and the daisies to bloom once again. We need to be thankful that today our soul belongs to Him and we can rest in that fact as we can for the rest of eternity. When that is what we wake up to every morning, that is an attitude of gratitude that fills our wells to the brim and leaves us saturated in contentment.
Psalm 119 is one of my most favorite psalms of all time. It's the recipe for happiness. It's titled "The Glories of God's Law". It is a declaration, a heart pouring out, a spirit all in for an expedition of following Christ in blissful contentment. Read it. Pray through it. Journal it! Feel your heart leap within you as your hear yourself saying "YES! Lord teach me! Guide me! Fix my eyes!" (yes I really do get THAT excited when I read it)
My road and my life have been something like climbing Mt. Everest.  It's dangerous and not for the faint of heart. There were times I wasn't sure I'd make it out alive. There are still days all I can do is bunker down in my tent and wait out the storm that has suddenly blown up. Even in this tumultuous life that I call life, I am finding a place of quiet contentment with Him. I am carving out what "enough" means. I am learning as He leads me to be thankful for the lessons and content even in the chaos.
Have a blessed and contentful day! Pass it on! :)