BLOG - WATER AND CONTENTMENT

Today I got running water again at the house. You can't imagine how happy I was! I flushed the toilet, I've done heaps of washing, I cleaned the kitchen and I'll soon have a shower.

Water is such a necessity for life - and an abundance of running water is just - such a blessing!

But I've also been listening to a sermon by John Piper about contentment. Paul said he had learned to have little and he'd learned to have a lot and in both cases was content.

I had this thought: "If God allowed my water to stop working again tomorrow and it took another week or two to fix it, would I be able to say that in all things I have learned to be content?"

I want to come to that place in my life where I have real contentment because I know that the only thing I need is God. I need to know this in every-day life, not just in my head.

Go and turn on your tap. Watch the water run out - and say "thank you God". Then whatever little thing it is that you want right now and don't have, be content with out it.

Jono Miller