Contentment? Yes please!

We all search for contentment, or happiness, whatever term you want to use. It’s a quieting of our inner being that we long for. There’s an emptiness in there and the search to fill it to quiet our souls is an intense treasure hunt. We seem to look for it in all the wrong places. We tend to think” if only I had more money, or the right person in office, or fame, or if only I could get this job or that or lose weight or on and on and on”. Jim Carrey once said” I think everyone should get rich and famous and do everything they’ve dreamed of so they can see that’s not the answer.” How many celebrities can you think of that have taken their own life or died of drugs overdoses? The grass is always greener right? Nope. I can testify myself that jumping the fence to greener pastures doesn’t work. We were created by God to be his people. To worship him. He loves us and without him the emptiness and the noise will follow us for eternity!! We were not designed to be without him. Yet many will go to the grave under the spell of the grandest illusion that there is happiness to be found outside of God. It’s a dead end. Literally. Eternal death. Bad thought isn’t it? Jesus came here from heaven to give us the way, the only way, to fill the emptiness and quiet the soul. To find the treasure you only need to trust and believe in Jesus and turn away from the grand illusion that happiness is found anywhere else than from Jesus and his complete forgiveness that he paid for on the cross. And his resurrection is our hope of eternal life which is promised to those who believe!! (Romans 10:9) Are you still looking? The clock is ticking! Don’t wait!! Let’s pray together for a peaceful day today! Dear God, we know you hold the true treasure of peace and joy. I do pray for our nation today. I pray that there won’t be anyone hurt!! I also pray for those searching to fill that emptiness inside and that they will find you in their looking!! Have a joy filled day!!