The Grace of Discontent

Sometimes it is easy to get discouraged. We want to be a better person. We want to be a stronger person. And we find it discouraging that we are struggling against certain strongholds in our lives that seem to be bigger that we know what to do with.

But as I am thinking and studying, I am beginning to think that the visibility of the struggles that we deal with and the fact that we are infact wrestling with things is not necessarily evidence that things are going wrong. Infact, this struggle, this discontent, is actually a beautiful and wonderful thing.

This is especially true in the Christian journey. Death is satisfied with the way things are in the world. Life is being God's instrument to transform the world. The way of death is choosing not to listen to that urge that God calls you to more. The way of life is to have an insatiable appetite to become more of who you were created to be that you were yesterday. The way of life always spurs us on to something greater. To something better. Death is closing yourself to the person God has formed and is continuing to form you to be.

For me, there are point where I wonder when I can be satisfied with things just the way they are. At times I want to be, but I am not. I think Jesus calls us to be thankful and content with what we have been given and who he has made us to be. But we are also called to never be satisfied with what is, so that we can see more of what could be.