How is contentment possible without content?  Are you ever poor if rich in the Lord’s Blessings?  Do people gravitate to you or avoid you like past plague?  Must I be rich to be happy or was it always simply a pursuit and not a destination?  Why are women flocking to women and men to men?  How is it that the world matches the Bible yet everyone is doing all that can do to discredit, ignore, deny and run from the truth of its predictive perfection?

When I deconstruct words I am often left with inconsistency.  That is precisely how I feel when investigating this word, content.  To me it is a natural conjunction of the words “Con” and acknowledgement of the negative and the word, “tent” a temporary of fabric dwelling.  I know that cannot possibly be the correct etymology because that portends that this word means the stuff that is outside the tent.  When in fact, this word rather points to a happiness with the stuff that is inside the tent, meaning be content without looking over the fence at the greenery beyond.  Apparently is comes from the word contained, but also has the connotation of being at rest, peaceful, satisfied.  So, it does have a dwelling aspect to its construct, meaning that a person is satisfied, at rest, at peace with the things contained within.

Are you at rest with the things contained within?  Do you find yourself unsteady, disquieted, frustrated, dis or un satisfied?  What if this position with which you currently contend is the moment of your rapture?  Are you ready to leave not having the peace that surpasses worldly understanding?  What if, God said to you that he has martyrdom planned for your life?  Could you or would you ever be content with the cup of misfortune God has handed you?  To whose Glory are you committed, yours or His?  Have you found peace and rest in this world?  I know where you can find the satisfaction to be “content” with where you are right now and at every juncture on the road to your . future.  The place is at the cross.  The pathway is through belief in Jesus.  The peace and the power are gifts of His Grace.  Find Him and find contentment in this life and the next.  In Jesus’ Name I pray for you today.