"To Be or Not To Be"

"To be or not to be.." is the opening phrase of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.

As silly as it may sound, I sometimes ask myself this question, to be this or to be that.  Lately, I have had many friends and acquaintance's either getting engaged or married, and as much as I long for it to be my time for all of that, I know that God has a plan for me and I have to be content.

Over the the past couple years I have accepted where I am in life and I am content with where God has be right now.  So being content has been on my mind and heart lately and it is actually what was part of my quiet time this morning.

Contentment is the ultimate acceptance of yourself, your surroundings, your past, and your future.  For a believer finding contentment should be effortless, yet getting to the state of contentment is not an easy task.

Satisfaction hen you have very real unmet needs, freedom from worry when you have overwhelming concerns, patience in letting God work when pressures abound--these seem like impossible dreams.  God chose not to give us contentment as a gift.  He chose to rather teach us to be content as you allow Him to be ruler in your life.

Contentment is learned.  Philippians 4:11 says, "I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances."  Paul is teaching the Philippians more about the providence and provision of God and the expectancy and contentment of the believer who would wait on the Lord.  Believers are to be "content" not WITH circumstances but IN circumstances.  This is something that is developed over time.

As you trust Gods gifts to be sufficient and His assignments to be appropriate, you can accept the way that you look, the means that you have been given, and so on.

Dissatisfaction with areas in your life that can be changed, within divine guidelines, may help you to see that something is missing.  I find myself craving God when I don't have my Quiet Time and I am not in His word on a daily basis, and for me that causes dissatisfaction and discontentment.

Instead of adopting a complaining spirit about where you are in your life, take your dissatisfaction's, worries, and concerns to the Lord.  Being willing in the meantime to be content as you walk the path that God has for you.

We must trust that God has given us everything that we need for this moment in time.