Contentment...

I haven’t blogged in a while and that in itself got me to thinking as to why. I’m completely content. I am in a new relationship, a new stage of life and the pressures of work and such are far away … for the moment.

It is in the place of the most content that can be the most dangerous though. It is when we feel most stable and apparently ‘fine’ that often the subtle tricks of the devil can creep on in and we are caught completely off guard and oblivious. It’s a calming place and a lovely place to be, but we must always be vigilant.

For me personally I’ve noticed that my Bible reading has slipped, I say slipped rather I mean ceased. I am content and yet I’ve begun to forget about the fuel that I need in order to continue. I’ve started to read Psalms and loving it. It is not hard to be passionate about the Bible when there is such truth and beauty unfolding in every page.

It is a fight, but Jesus has the victory and I will strife to challenge and push myself further, even in this place of contentment.

I know that there is little time left before I start the heavy workload again, but even in prolonged times of deep breaths we can still enter in, we can still push, challenge and strife to know our God better, to live increasingly more like Him and to bring glory to His name.

I wrote that this morning and I've already been hit by a few challenges, it just goes to show - always need to be ready!