Do you ever just wish for more?
Some things just have to go…once you start growing up, that is. If you are not careful you can wish your life away! Just suppose you had a chance for just one wish. The most important wish in your life.
What would that wish be?
In life we have things we hope for, things we desire and dream about, things we crave… Even kings and queens have wishes like we do. Wouldn’t you think that a king could have anything…just by taking it? Look at King Saul, King David, King Solomon, Queen of Sheba…they all wished for things they couldn’t just take. Each of these “wished for” good things, bad things, irrational things, not to mention impossible and unreasonable things that were all unfulfilled desires.
t seems to be programmed into our DNA. We see it with Eve in the Garden of Eden! Some of us wish we were taller, shorter, healthier, stronger, thinner, smarter, wittier, richer, younger, more sparkling and vivacious… The wish sometimes comes with lust for power and position. We have been told that “If you wish it, it will happen!” (Disney-Pinocchio-a real boy! The song, “When You Wish upon a Star…”) Of course, we know this is untrue! It is great in animation, but unrealistic in real life.
Sometimes we wish we could “fudge on the truth” and get away with it. We can’t! Sometimes we wish ill on someone when we are mistreated. The usual result is a case of guilt! With all the self-help books available, it is clearly evident that we all have a built in “wisher”, full of personal desires.
Contentment is realizing that God has provided everything thing that I need for my present happiness. (I Tim. 6: 8) Our desires determine the choices we make. We are controlled by them. “The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.” (George Eliot) Paul said, “I have learned in whatsoever state I am, to be content.” (Phil. 4: 11) “Genuine contentment is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it.” (G.K.Chesterton)
Most people are about as content as they make up their mind to be!
How do you find yourself today?
Content? In harmony with His desires?
~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America. Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California. My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights.
