I believe I found the answer that I have been searching for. This post is sort of a continuation of my last post but I wanted to say more about contentment. Contentment is not about having possessions. It is a belief that you have toward yourself. If you say to yourself "I am in need" then you believe you are in need. In the opposite way, if you say to your self " I do not need anything" then that is how you feel. The way we talk to ourselves affect how we feel about ourselves. I realized that if you change that self-talk to something positive and really believe it, your whole outlook on life will change. This is an important point to understand, we are what we believe. What we believe affects our actions and the way we feel.
This is a big truth, a life-changing truth that I have found about my self. I am complete and whole. I do not need anything to complete me. I am always in a state of wholeness. I do not know why I could not understand this truth a long time ago but I do now. I heard the words but I did not feel them to be true. Maybe you can only hear a truth spoken but you will not really understand it until you reach a time in your life that you can truly understand. So I feel that not many of you will understand what I am saying. You will intellectually understand it with your mind but you will not feel it within your heart because it does not have that much meaning to you right now. But I will say this to you, this will become extremely important to you at a certain time in your life. I will go even further to say that this is what we all are searching for the realization that we are complete and whole right now in our lives.
Wherever I am, I am complete. Wherever I go, I am complete. In whatever conditions I am in, I am still complete.
Anything that is added to my life adds to my completeness and happiness. It does complete me but only adds more to my life. If things are taken away from my life, it does not make me incomplete. I am whole and complete until the day I die. Nothing but God can change that.
The basic needs of food, clothing, water, and shelter, all add to my well being. However, if it was all strip away, my feeling of wholeness and completeness would still be there.
This belief of being whole and complete has increased my thankfulness. From this point of complete contentment, I feel truly thankful for everything that I do have. From this place of peace, I give thanks to God and I feel more connected to him.
Yes, this year has brought a great revelation to me. I feel my long search for answers is over.and I have found what I was looking for. I have found my peace and contentment. From this point forward, I can see me having an even greater connection to God. This is all new to me, no more searching but experiencing, what I do have. I feel complete at this moment and I am confident that I will feel this way for the rest of my life. Where will this lead me, I do not know? Only time will tell.
Romans 12:2 "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect."
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