"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. What do workers gain from their toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. {He has made everything beautiful in its time.} He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it."
-Ecclesiastes 3:1-14

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Contentment & Security



There's the many individuals who are dating seriously. Then the individuals that just got engaged. Then my friends and family who are having children. Then the friends who have good paying jobs. And then just my fellow seniors who know exactly what they are doing after college.

Yeah.

I don't fit any of those categories.

Most of the time, that doesn't bug me. But sometimes, I would love the SECURITY contained in each of the categories above. A boyfriend. A husband. A defined role. Money. Direction.

But right now, the Lord has not placed me in any of those categories.

Instead he has me single, in transition, and uncertain.

But what better a time, then to rest solely in Him?

The One who was only ever meant to be my SECURITY.

"But godliness with contentment is great gain." -1 Timothy 6:7

Openhanded and excited to see what God has in store,
Mollie

"Would you not prefer a lot selected by the Lord to one chosen by yourself? Do you not joyfully sing with the Psalmist, "You shall choose my inheritance for me?"...Contentment with your lot and confidence in God will make life peaceful and happy—a dinner of herbs with content will yield a flavor of satisfaction unknown to those who eat the stalled ox. It is better to be happy than to be rich—and happiness lies in the heart rather than in the purse. Not what a man has, but what a man is will decide his bliss or woe in this life and the next."
-Charles Spurgeon
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