Is the grass greener?

So hello all! I hope everyone has arrived home safe and sound. I just wanted to get back on track with my thoughts and my blog.

So lately, God has been teaching me about contentment. This afternoon I was in the break room waiting for my chicken and vegetables to be heated, (a "healthy" lunch mind you) when one of my colleagues walked up with a big container of Mac and Cheese. I of course stated that "Oooh that's so much better than my crappy lunch" (and by the way I soooooo enjoyed my lunch). It made me think though. Is the grass greener on the other side??

I have been guilty of wanting what I do not have. I have been guilty of not being happy with what I have. I need to remember I have all that I need. I occasionally focused on the mindset of; "Sure would be nice if I had Fill in the Blank". What about what I do have?? I loving family, an amazing home I get to live in, my health, my friends, and most importantly GOD. Have I strayed that far to think I am not blessed enough? To tell you the truth, I believe that GOD allows us to dream big dreams. Yeah, He is a sovereign GOD and we may not get all that we desire, but I believe they are not given to us to keep us in check.

"It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on. This isn't the first time I have warned you, you know. If you use your freedom this way, you will not inherit God's kingdom." Galatians 5:19

I am making an effort to revolve my wants to be GOD-centric. Would GOD want me to get a PS3? Well probably, but I'm sure I would please HIM more in using that $400 towards others. Would GOD want me to be in a relationship??? Well technically I already am. I am in the best love relationship I can ever ask for. I am in a relationship with My First Love. Even if I don't always express my love, I always know that HIS love is unfailing. So I challenge everyone to ask themselves:

"Am I truly happy with where I am?"

"Am I content with my circumstances??? Do I trust God to provide??"

"Actually, I don't have a sense of needing anything personally. I've learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances. I'm just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I've found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty. Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am." Philippians 4:10-11