Discontentment

Discontentment

Never Satisfied

A beggar standing on a street corner commented to his friends, “If only I had a hundred dollars, I would never complain again.” A businessman walking by overheard his statement and interrupted the conversation.

“Excuse me,” the man said. “Did you say if you had a hundred dollars, you would never complain again?”

The beggar replied, “You heard right, mister.”

 The man pulled out his wallet, handed him a hundred dollars, and said, “I’m glad I can have a small part in bringing happiness to the world.”

 After the man walked away, the beggar turned to his friends and remarked, “I wish I had asked for two hundred dollars!”

 When we become discontented, we’re not satisfied by what we receive because our problem is internal.

Teachings of Christ

Jonah

Matthew 12:39-41 

39 He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a miraculous sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

41 The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now one greater than Jonah is here.

Our Source of Hope

Knowing we are heaven bound gives hope and meaning to our lives. Let’s tell others about Jesus, the source of our hope.

Goals

What Might Have Been

"It's never too late to be what you might have been." --George Elliot