Your Struggle with Contentment Won't Go Away When You Get Married

Six years ago I dated and got engaged to someone that I didn't end up marrying.

At first during the fun of dating, engagement, wedding planning and dreaming of our life together, my struggle with discontentment went away (or so I thought). But it couldn't hide itself for long. I had never dealt with the root, and so soon there was growing in my heart a whole new set of things to be discontent about. Here I was, about to get everything I ever wanted - a husband, my own home, a plot of land in the country with a beautiful view, amazing sister-in-laws... and still, things didn't measure up. It wasn't quite enough. I wasn't quite satisfied.

I'm so thankful God broke off that engagement and used it to teach me that Jesus alone is more than enough to satisfy, no matter my set of circumstances.

Sister, if discontentment is thriving in your heart while you're single, it will still be there when you aren't single. You will still find it rearing it's ugly head when you finally get the boyfriend, the fiance, the husband, the house, or the kids.

Nothing will ever be "enough" for you until Jesus is. Until Jesus is your everything, you won't be content with anything.

God's gifts should be an added bonus to an already fully satisfying relationship with Christ. But too often, we make Christ the added bonus, and seek to find our satisfaction in His gifts.

If you want to become a contented single woman, you're going to have to start looking at all the reasons why Jesus is more than enough for you, instead of all the things He hasn't given you.

Dwell on Jesus more than you dwell on the gifts you desire Him to give you. Jesus is much more than just enough to "tide me over" until I get a husband. He is everything to me. I'd rather have Jesus than anything.

(written when I had the gift of singleness.)