Job 20:20-“Because he knew no contentment in his belly, he will not let anything in which he delights escape him.

If there was something in your life that you could attain, that you believe would give you contentment, what would that be?  When this question is asked, we tend to “cleanse” our desires and regulate them to what is socially acceptable.  Like a successful career, loving marriage, accomplished children, nicer home, etc.  All things that no one would chastise you for desiring.

But in this description from Job’s “friend” Zophar describing the wicked, a lack of contentment is clearly not regulated to admirable aspirations.  Because an honest look into ourselves and society at large, to delight in something/someone and not let it escape us, can be very destructive and wicked from start to finish! (2 Samuel 13:1-14)

Finding contentment consumes our life, Christian or not.  It is where we are trying to find it, is where the two groups part ways.  It is of course good to desire necessities for survival, such as food, clothing and shelter.  But the issue with having “no contentment in our belly” is that the basics are hardly enough. So we move on from the basics to luxuries, and from the luxuries to indulgences, all in the name of trying to find “contentment”…

As Christians we are challenged with the thought that, “if I have a God who promises pleasures and riches forevermore, what is my excuse for discontentment and not letting go of my “own delights”, to tap into this contentment that God presents to me?” (Psalm 16:11)

One of the greatest treasures from Jesus, is the opportunity to have a renewed mind through His Word and Spirit.  That if my mind isn’t continually being renewed as to what will give me contentment, than I won’t pursue God, but whatever my “old mind” desires to pursue!  Even if those things are “socially acceptable”, they aren’t God, and can’t give me the contentment I desperately need. (1 Timothy 6:6, Romans 12:2, Titus 3:5)

In His Love, LD