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Being content does not mean you should sit back, fatalistically accepting life’s problems or troubles, it does not mean you should lice life like a wondering generality, unmotivated and undisciplined. Nor does being content mean you lack passion or you are devoid of a drive and desire to want things to change for the better. No. being content simply means you trust God enough that you do not get frustrated when things do not go your way. You do not allow circumstances to steal your joy and keep you from being happy. You can chose to stay happy and content no matter what comes against you in life. You can decide not to let little things get the best of you.
God is not going to change your circumstances until your change. If you do not learn to be content where you are, you are never going to get to where you want to be. You may not have all the money you want today. Things may be tight and you may be struggling. But as long as you complain all the time, taking about how poorly life’s treating you and how you are never going to get ahead, your sour attitude will keep you right where you are.
You may not be everything you want to be. You may not have everything you want to have, but you must learn to be content, regardless of your circumstances. You must trust that God is at work in your life. You need to believe that you are making progress. You are growing. Do not be upset or discontented, know God is in control.
If God is ordering your steps that means when you are right now is exactly where God wants you to be.
God has you there for a reason. You may not understand it. He may be trying to do a work in you. He may be trying to teach you, to push you, to stretch you, to see how you are going to respond in that difficulty God may have put you in that situation to be a part of the work. He is doing in someone else’s life. God may be using you to influence other people. But whatever it is, you might as well choose to the happy, knowing that God is directing your steps and He has you there for reason.
We believe that God is guiding us as long as you are getting what we want and we are living on the mountaintop. But we need to understand that the God is directing our steps even when it seems thing are not going our way. You may be in stressful situation today. You simply must learn to trust God anyway. You must learn to keep a good attitude, knowing that God is in control.
