HAS GOD EVER SHOWN YOU PERFECT AND YOU TURN THE PAGE ANYWAY TO SEE IF THERE IS SOMETHING MORE PERFECT?

Let’s come out the Sober Truth Gate like a bull for a moment! Have you ever seen the most beautiful picture in a magazine and before you could truly appreciate what you have just experienced, you were rushing to see what was on the next page? There is a term that has taken on a life of its own, FOMO- Fear of missing out. Oh but wait, there is a close cousin that has most certainly shown up for the party! The Term is, FOMOM- Fear of Missing Out More! It is this self-inflicted wound of never truly being satisfied with what is before you.

It is like ordering your favorite dish from your favorite restaurant, sitting at your favorite table; being serviced by your favorite maître d'; and all of a sudden- a new dish is featured; in the new section of the restaurant; with the new maître d' coming through with what you do not have! What you once bragged on to others becomes less appealing. What you thought the restaurant could not do any better in a dish is now eclipsed, not by what you have actually tasted; rather it is by what you are seeing. It caused your gaze to leave what was before you to look at what was to the left of you.

Let’s ascend with the conversation of not truly embracing contentment. Hebrews 13:5 gives us instructions, “Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” As Believers, we have been afforded a gift to not always have to turn the page for me. God has placed so much of His perfection on the Season of the Page that we find ourselves. I beseech you, do not shy away from the word “perfection” in God. God has endowed us with the ability to go from infancy to maturity. The once longing for everything you did not have to a gratitude for what God has chosen for us to have.

Of recent, I have really been on gratitude! It has been that favorite record in my head that you have played so much that it has started skipping! What exactly do we think that God owes us, when we never paid off the debt that once being an enemy to Him ran up an endless tab⁉️ As Psalm 84:10 so potently states, “For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.” Contentment will have us grateful to be in the number. No need for the quick flip to the next page- set your gaze again on what God has perfected concerning you.

Divine Work & Pray:

Work:

Jot down in your journal your thoughts concerning “contentment.” What emotions surface when you hear the word? Do you deem it as an empowering word or restrictive one? Answer the title for yourself: “Has God shown you perfect and you turned the page anyway to see if there was something more perfect?”

Pray:

Father God, contentment is found in you. Not from a place of being forced to conjure up feelings of acceptance, but from a place of gratefulness. You are a God who gets personal and intimate. You have plans for us here and beyond. You grace us with an opportunity to glorify you in the abound and abased place. Thank you, Lord for perfecting a maturity in your children that allows us to capture the beauty of your handiwork.

In Jesus’ Name. Amen.