The Struggle for Contentment

Published: May 12, 2019, 8:36 p.m.

b"Author Melissa Kruger, describes one of the great challenges of women, which is they place their hope for satisfaction in lesser things that were never created to bear that type of hope. She describes a woman who is standing before an ocean and she is desperately thirsty and takes a big glass of water and she reaches down and wants to pick up that ocean water to drink. And all of us would say no, don\\u2019t drink from that. The ocean is a wonderful thing, a beautiful thing. You can swim in it; you can enjoy it, but it was never meant to quench your thirst. So if she drinks from it, she will get thirstier still. And in fact if she keeps drinking of it, she will die. This is the struggle for contentment. To think that the things of this world will quench your thirst, will sustain you, will make you happy, is a lie. It will only make you more thirsty, less content, and it will destroy you. Philippians 4:10-13 tells us there is a better way. But we must remember there was 1) The Loss of Contentment, 2) The Struggle for Contentment, and then 3) The Hope for Contentment.\\nText: Philippians 4:10-13Speaker: Sam ShinDate: 5/12/19 (Mother's Day)"