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“God, you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they can find rest in you.” This is Contentment and the Ache Within.
Augustine wrote these words on contentment long before instant text messaging and social media.
The truth remains; you were made by God, for God. Yet you live in a world that says we can double-tap, swipe-right, thumbs up our way to happiness. The problem is instant gratification does not equal happiness. Your very essence is designed to find rest and wholeness in your Creator. While the world says contentment is a state of happiness or satisfaction we know there is more.
Reverand Bob Ragan, a member of the Regeneration Ministries team, is on the podcast to unpack the meaning of contentment and 4 ways to develop it in your own life.
Come as you are. “Becoming Whole” is inviting you to discover how to satisfy the ache within.
Highlights:
The world's idea of contentment is based on my emotions and my environment, contentment is based on a set of conditions and our world is in a state of flux
The Holy Spirit shifts our focus out of this temporal satisfaction and says there’s something more
When we feel that ache of longing for it to continue, that actually is God’s way of helping to increase our hearts capacity for what is coming
Homework:
Gratitude is powerful for shaping our brains, our hearts, and our actions. The road to contentment begins with gratitude.
Resources/Extras:
"God, you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you." Augustine
"Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when people are utterly persuaded that nothing - not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends - nothing is going to bring satisfaction to their sinful, guilty, aching hearts besides God." – John Piper
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