This is what the Lord of Armies says: Carefully consider your ways! You planted a lot, but you harvested little. You eat, but you’re never full. You drink, but you’re still thirsty. You wear clothing, but you never have enough to keep you warm. You spend money as fast as you earn it.
Haggai 1:5–6
Are you let down by your life and what you have or don’t have? You do everything you think you need to do in order to be happy, but you aren’t satisfied. Everything and everyone seems to disappoint you. You look for more but can’t find it. And then when you do find what you were looking for, you still aren’t satisfied. Why?
An unsatisfied life comes from a lack of agreeing with God, not a lack of cute stuff. When you decide to agree with Christ no matter what happens, you’ll find more than the world could ever offer, but as long as you think that the riches of this world, all the fame it has to offer, and the comfort it promises are what you want and need, what you plant will never produce the success you want to be yours.
The answer to all discontentment is to think carefully before you act. What would be the holy choice? If your first thought and reason for acting is based on the world’s ideas of right and wrong, then you can be sure that the result will not be God’s best for you. It’s easy to think like the world around you and just accept things that seem to make sense to you, but in order to be content, the believer has to look at things differently—that is, with Scripture in mind. Run everything you think and accept as truth through the filter of God’s Word, and don’t let the lies of this world color your faith. The truth can set you free from a deceptive world and let you see things for what they really are. Truth heals, and the truth is found nowhere but in the pages of God’s Word.