Hope Road

Contentment in Christ

Welcome to the sixth entry in the Soul Sisters series (which, by the way, I still think is a really cheesy title). Click here for the introduction to the series.

Today’s truth:
The most content women are not those who have everything the world can offer, but who have everything Christ can offer.

What does the world try to offer women? What is the picture-perfect portrait of the world’s ideal woman? She is confident, beautiful, in control, wealthy, and well-educated. She has her dream job, the perfect “significant other,” a lovely and spacious home, and a dream vacation several times a year.

This woman is unrealistic and unattainable. Even if she could be found, she wouldn’t be content without Christ.

What does Christ have to offer that the world doesn’t? First and foremost, He offers salvation! Because of His death on the cross, God offers forgiveness to sinners like you and me. Jesus paid the price for my sins, so I don’t have to live under the wrath of God anymore.

And amazingly, God doesn’t stop at forgiveness - He adopts us as His very own. We become His treasured possession, His children. He condescends to share His glorious worth with us. We are allowed to live in relationship with Him! - the most fulfilling, beautiful relationship in the universe.

He reorients our whole way of living - instead of living in sin and to serve ourselves, we live to show His beauty to others, to magnify Him, and to enjoy Him. Dying to ourselves, we live.

What a change! How can anything the world offers compare?

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