Settle
"It's just something I am born with that. I can't get rid of it." You think I am talking about a disease or a wart that grows on the end of my nose or something of that sort, but I said that yesterday when referring to my pride. Is that true? Is pride something I can't get rid of?
Pride is addressed many times in the Bible. Most of the time when pride is addressed it is very clear about what to do with it...get rid of it. Well I have pride, I have an excess of pride. I settle with the fact that I was born with pride and I don't want to get rid of it. I settle with a lot of things that I don't want to get rid of even if that mean getting rid of it can bring more joy.
Settling is something that is so easy to do. Contentment is something that is easy to have in a relationship. Especially a relationship with Jesus. Do I really want to be just content with Jesus and our relationship? Do I really want to be content with any of my relationships? I see contentment as a place where I am happy with where I am, and I don't seek to change or grow. Do I make any sense?
I would like to seek excellence. So often excellence is something that is looked at, but never never reached for. Contentment is something I see very often. So many people who are Christians reach for contentment. I can be content. Contentment is easy. All I have to do is live in the busy schedule I have right now. Now note through contentment I am not ignoring God. In contentment I have a relationship with God, but not seeking that intense passionate relationship. It is being alright with the friendship I have with God and not seeking the relationship that goes so far beyone friendship. Contentment is staying the way I am and accepting the criticism and agreeing on the criticism that people give me but never really changing that. Even if the people who give me the criticism are people I love, and tell me the criticism out of love. Contentment is so many things in my life. Contentment is settling for things I know I deserve better or can do better. Oh man I could go on and on. Contentment is settling with the pride I have and not wanting to change that pride because I was born with it.
I see contentment all the time. I see contentment in myself all the time. I see contentment in my life all the time. I want to get away from contentment and move on to excellence with God, my friends, my family, my school work, my roommates, and everything else in my life.
OK so I got on a soap box. I am off. I am out. I could have made this one long sentence with the grammar problems I have in this one, and it would have made more sense. The sad thing is I am a public relations major. All I do at school is write I should be good at it dang it.
jess
Pride is addressed many times in the Bible. Most of the time when pride is addressed it is very clear about what to do with it...get rid of it. Well I have pride, I have an excess of pride. I settle with the fact that I was born with pride and I don't want to get rid of it. I settle with a lot of things that I don't want to get rid of even if that mean getting rid of it can bring more joy.
Settling is something that is so easy to do. Contentment is something that is easy to have in a relationship. Especially a relationship with Jesus. Do I really want to be just content with Jesus and our relationship? Do I really want to be content with any of my relationships? I see contentment as a place where I am happy with where I am, and I don't seek to change or grow. Do I make any sense?
I would like to seek excellence. So often excellence is something that is looked at, but never never reached for. Contentment is something I see very often. So many people who are Christians reach for contentment. I can be content. Contentment is easy. All I have to do is live in the busy schedule I have right now. Now note through contentment I am not ignoring God. In contentment I have a relationship with God, but not seeking that intense passionate relationship. It is being alright with the friendship I have with God and not seeking the relationship that goes so far beyone friendship. Contentment is staying the way I am and accepting the criticism and agreeing on the criticism that people give me but never really changing that. Even if the people who give me the criticism are people I love, and tell me the criticism out of love. Contentment is so many things in my life. Contentment is settling for things I know I deserve better or can do better. Oh man I could go on and on. Contentment is settling with the pride I have and not wanting to change that pride because I was born with it.
I see contentment all the time. I see contentment in myself all the time. I see contentment in my life all the time. I want to get away from contentment and move on to excellence with God, my friends, my family, my school work, my roommates, and everything else in my life.
OK so I got on a soap box. I am off. I am out. I could have made this one long sentence with the grammar problems I have in this one, and it would have made more sense. The sad thing is I am a public relations major. All I do at school is write I should be good at it dang it.
jess