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"Do not spoil what you have simply by desiring what you have not; remember that everything you now have was once among the things you just hoped for. "

(341BCE-270BCE)

CHRISTIANS which have taken God at his Term, have found something of a nirvana knowledge by following Jesus, by desiring him or her alone, and in purifying themselves in the outer desires of many a muddinessconfusion.

Usually because of some crisis or rock bottom experience, they have been led because of the Holy Spirit to abandon the old way of life - they didn't merely say they would or did, they did it!

When all other desires usually are subsumed under mamparas en oferta the Godhead - Dad, Son, and Spirit - and then there is only one logical outcome: some sort of reliant sense for sanctification. Might be sanctification was only a word, or even a badly misunderstood concept beforehand.

Occasionally the old life - or broken phrases thereof - needs to be ripped away from us before we are truly prepared to give Jesus our all. Right up until God orchestrates the events of our lifestyles this way, we tend to swirl in a useless fashion trying to find the 'magic' spirit to faith. The worst condition then takes us into anything we wouldn't wish on our adversaries (if we have any), but in the near future, as we struggle well with The lord, we begin to understand.

The trial period is purposed for purification - to purify from us the grip the ungodly desires have above us.

And what does all this have to do with contentedness?

Well, contentedness and desire are linked. We are unable to achieve contentedness until we have specified our desires in such a way that God really comes first.

This is where we need to be: when God's truth and God's definitely will, and our love for Goodness, have reached a place where they are foundationally first. When all else comes below God, and our desires have got conformed themselves under God, we all verily need nothing else.

Contentedness... more simply.

When we truly need no other relaxation than the Lord himself, we can live free of covetousness, and free of the duty of needing anything. That's liberty. That's spiritual living.

I like to consider this is the best reward of being the Christian - and it all starts off from Christian theology. No other 'religion' can compete with the message regarding grace that underpins the relationship we can have with Jesus through the O Spirit.



Being blissfully written content is about not needing another thing in case God takes supreme position. It is quite simple to understand, yet harder to get, for we must let go of the world along with the desires of the flesh.

True contentedness is the arrangement of joy for your lives we presently have.

2013 S. J. Wickham.