"You will battle with discontent until you let Christ be all that you need."

A thought by Craig Groeschel from his book, Liking Jesus: Intimacy and Contentment in a Selfie-Centered World (p. 31). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

It is so easy to be discontented isn’t?

Craig says, “It’s arguable that no generation before us has struggled with discontent as much as ours. Although we still have poverty and economic inequality, the everyday lives of most of us are filled with convenience, opportunity, and abundance—sometimes to the point of excess. Yet it doesn’t take much for us to feel as though we aren’t getting everything we deserve and to face disappointment. Add social media and what do you get? Never before have so many people had so much and felt so dissatisfied.”

He later says, “You will battle with discontent until you let Christ be all that you need. Don’t believe me? Then prove me wrong. Chase after everything you’ve ever wanted. Go ahead. I dare you. I double-dog dare you. Go earn as much money as you can. Buy whatever you want. Achieve, conquer, accumulate, repeat. Sound familiar? Maybe you’ve already tried some of these things, or at least known someone else who has. None of it works. At the end of the day, every day, you’ll still feel empty.”

He goes on, “I remember when I was a teenager, years before I knew Christ, hearing people say, ‘God makes a Christ-shaped void inside every person.’ That saying annoyed me. I did not understand what they were talking about. But then one day I learned for myself why they said it: because it is absolutely true. Nothing outside of a living relationship with Christ can ever fill the emptiness inside.

“You know you’ve been searching. I’m here to tell you that Christ is what you’re searching for. He is your source. He is your strength. He is your sustainer. He is your joy. He is your contentment. He is your all in all. When Christ is all you have, you’ll finally realize that Christ is all you need.”

Have you finally realized that to be true or are you still searching?  Would you in the quietness of your heart just reach out to him right now?   Would you ask him to forgive you of your sin and would you ask him to come into your heart?  Would you?

Yes, yes!