Contentment is probably the most counter-cultural sentiment there is today. To be content is to swim against the current in a culture that tells you that you need x, y, and z to be satisfied. How can you be happy unless you have the bigger house or the faster car or the newest iPhone?

But contentment says, “No thanks. I already have enough. I am enough because God is with me and God is enough.”

Contentment is not the same as complacency. You’re still striving to be the best version of yourself possible. You still want to become more like Christ every single day. But your identity isn’t tied up in performance or possessions but it’s who God says you are in Christ.

Contentment means that you’re not constantly enraged about everything going on around you, not that you are okay with injustice and suffering but you know that ultimately that justice and peace belong to God alone.

Contentment means that you have read the last page of the Bible and know that everything is going to turn out alright. The end has already been written and God wins (and those who are with God and belong to God win). Those who are in Christ win.

Lord, help us to be content in You alone. May we be satisfied with nothing more and nothing less than all that You are and all that You have created us to be. You are enough. Amen.