🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿
Christ suffered for our sins once for all time. He never sinned, but He died for sinners to bring you safely home to God. —1 Peter 3:18
🌿LIVE THE REAL TRUTH🌿
The prodigal son leaves his home when his passion for his father is displaced by an affinity for adventure. He walks away because he believes the world can offer him more. His story is not simply about wavering sin and wandering into a sinful life. It’s also about discontentment.
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Going broke.
The shepherd’s tent next door stands so mighty in structure and shape. His sheep and goats seem so magnificent in size and stature. In the Ten Commandments, the last command God gives to Moses is to refrain from coveting the neighbors’ house, donkey, ox, or cattle. Yet we still yearn for what looks brighter, bigger, and better. When we indulge in comparison,
•our bling shines bland
•our bounty seems broke
•our best stares bare
Our list of why-can’t-I-haves can stir up dissatisfaction, disillusionment, and disappointment in the life God has graced us. When our focal point is fixed on what we lack, our attitude of God leans away from unfettered grace to unmet gratification.
•The other must be better.
•Mine is in decline.
•My old doesn’t shine like gold.
•What I possess is less.
•More in store next door.
My relationship is snoring. My career is boring. My faith’s not soaring. I feel passionless, restless, and spiritless. Not exciting…Let’s get to distant shores. Not entertaining…Let’s go explore. Not enough…I covet more. Coveting is an outward manifestation of discontentment. So is wandering.
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Getting lost.
Like many wanderers, the prodigal son makes an unexpected discovery: a downsize to wandering is getting lost. The prodigal son finds himself despairingly lost in a dead-end pigpen that makes the once green grass look ugly and unfulfilling. Greener life on the other side often translates into a meaner life—and a warped adventure.
Pace your life in the contentment of God. No hurry to catch up to what the neighbors are doing. The prodigal son believes he is missing out and sets out on a regrettable journey to to keep up with the Jones’. The goal of God Himself is far brighter, bigger, and better than the epic grass we surmise growing in someone else’s yard.
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Grace trumps gratification.
Turn the tables. How can discontentment be displaced? Breathe in saving grace. Breathe away self-gratification. With thanks, traverse over the cornucopia of blessings God has conferred upon your journey. Grateful-for-grace trumps gunning-for-gratification.
Real adventure doesn’t require distance from home. Real contentment doesn’t relinquish devotion to the Father. Reassess your mantra:
I can adventure with God anywhere as long as…….
•God’s will over mine.
•My priorities are in line.
•What God gifts me is fine.
•Where God places me is divine.
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©️2020 Jordan Su