Content in the Lord. 1

I don’t want to write some blah picture of what contentment is in the Lord so I ask that you ask the Lord to bring this message alive in you.

The soul can become a very restless if it’s eyes, mind, and heart are not on the Lord.

"But those who still reject me are like the restless sea, which is never still but continually churns up mud and dirt.” Isaiah 57:20

If you and I were to settle for anything other then the Lord for our contentment, we are putting that thing, whatever it might be, above the Lord.

Furthermore when we settle for anything less then the Lord- that is not life and life more abundantly.

"The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have [it] more abundantly.” John 10:10

For the Lord is the what?

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14:6

You settle for what life gives you, that is what you are going to get. You settle for religion, you are going to get religion but when one finds contentment in the Lord he/she finds what life is really about.

Contentment in the Lord is “knowing” in your “Knower” that whatever may happen in this life, God has your back. It’s knowing he has made a way for you and that knowing brings assurance, confidence in Him and peace to our souls.

A peace… that those who depend on anything other then the Lord, cannot have.

"I am leaving you with a gift--peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don't be troubled or afraid.” John 14:27

Because Jesus gives us that peace and that peace allows us to work and live in the Spirit but if we try to find contentment in anything other then the Lord we give up the peace that Jesus gives and we make it difficult for the Holy Spirit to work in us.

Obviously the effectiveness of the Holy Spirit working in our lives is dependent upon our submission to Him- which is connected to contentment in the Lord.

A child with loving, caring, affectionate parents can’t feel contentment in their parents until they accept, trust and submit themselves to that love that is given to them.

It is true for us. We have been saved by our submission and surrender to the Lord.

I remember surrendering my life to the Lord and God answering my surrender by having someone who was content in the Lord and filled with the Holy Spirit to speak to me. They were a stranger, knew nothing about me yet as the Spirit of God directed and flowed through them – they spoke what God wanted them to say through tongues and interpretation. They spoke of things they could not have known except God. And as they had their hand on me I was freed from my empty life full of hate, anger, frustration, resentment and prideful tendencies and filled with Spirit of God. A new life flowed in me and I felt brand new. I was a new person but I could not have become a new person in Christ if I did not submit myself to the trusting love of God.

There in the (trusting love of God) is where we find contentment and stay contented.

We must continue to renew our mind and stir our heart by coming and asking God to make his word and power come alive in our lives. Know he is the only one to satisfy your soul. And in that living satisfaction you will shine in the love of Jesus Christ.