One More Thing

“Contentment is found before the one thing you’ve been waiting for.”

Loren Thornburg

“The Can’t Live Without It List” caught my attention on the cover of a clothing catalogue. A list of things you need to be happy, that you can’t live another day without. It’s everywhere, including within ourselves, that we hear this message in one way or another. We are waiting for that one more thing before we are content. Waiting to be married, to have a house, to get a promotion at work, to have more money, to achieve our dreams, and on and on. These aren’t bad things but it is an endless cycle of things we need to be satisfied, yet they never fully satisfy. Maybe for a moment there is a temporary excitement but when that fades we are left needing one more thing and thus stuck in the trap of waiting for contentment. Maybe actually we need one less thing. With all the “things” we have we lose track of the thing we really need. It’s hard to break free of the cycle and the voices that call us to one more thing. Yet until we do we will be bound to the can’t live without it list. Break free into contentment, where you are free to live without it!

“Just think-you don’t need a thing, you’ve got it all! All God’s gifts are right in front of you as you wait expectantly for our Master Jesus to arrive on the scene for the Finale.”

1 Corinthians 1:7 MSG

You’ve got all you need when you’ve got Jesus. Oh it doesn’t always feel like it. The voices and the temptation for another thing that we can’t live without are still there but there is another way, there is another choice. We are not bound by the endless cycle but free to find endless satisfaction and everything we need. God gives us everything that we need. The confusion comes however when what we think we need and what God defines as our need look different. So let’s cling to this reminder of truth. All God’s gifts are right in front of you. Yes, you’ve got it all!! You don’t need a thing. Contentment is here for the taking in Him.