Why do I have a crushed spirit? Cares of my world are getting worse as I get older. Financial circumstances continue to pile up, health issues increase, relationships get difficult, unsatisfying, church is less fulfilling than ever before. My spirit is crushed by the circumstances of my life.
But these circumstances that get me so down are irrelevant and I get down because I focus on them. They are irrelevant to the life I have been given in Christ. Paul learned to be content in all circumstances because good or bad his ultimate focus was on Christ and the goal of eternal life with him. What occurs here is just temporary and a training ground for our faith. Nothing in this life is ever going to give us the satisfaction we desire because nothing in this life is going to live up to the fullness of life we will find ultimately in the next world. We want something that can't be had in this world. Everything you look to to give you satisfaction doesn't and will not. So be content with what God has given you, orient yourself to the truth of the gospel and what He suffered for you to give you this fullness of life that is coming, you will then find the joy beyond the walls of this world - a foretaste of the tree of eternal life.
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