As I work through this series of Sunday lessons we’re calling Can’t Get No Satisfaction, I am struck by the fact that so much of our effort to find satisfaction comes down to one decision. As we think about our money, our families, and our work, we often decide that we would find contentment or meaning in life if we had something different. That mentality is pervasive in our culture.
Scripture teaches a simple response to that thinking, and this is the key decision that we have to make. When we look at our lives and see our money, our families, and our work as gifts from God which makes our lives better and richer, we can’t possibly think that something else would be better. We can only give thanks, and in the simple act of giving thanks, we are communicating that God’s blessing is sufficient.
This approach is counter-cultural, and some people won’t understand. But it can be a key to transforming the way that we approach life.
