The Game You Can't Win

     There is a game I noticed I can’t win, that is, „attaining“ satisfaction through acquiring „things“. In my specific case it wasn’t neccesarily the „thing“ I wanted, rather the „hunt“ for the best price/availability. I enjoyed the chase. But then one day last week I realized as long as I was perpetually hunting something earthly I was missing on "lay[ing] up for [myself] treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:" (Matthew 6:20).

     You see that „new thing“ and get fixated on attaining it. You rationalize you need it or deserve it (No really, I need it, I promise!) Then once you get it, within a short amount of time, you see that next „ thing“ that „you gotta have“ and the game goes on and on and on. Even if you have enough money to keep playing this game, there is a deeper issue here and that is into what you are letting your focus get invested. Life requires our full attention and diligence. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: (1 Peter 5:8)

     So what is the remedy to not being able to win this game?  Don't play, be content. Not just with the things that you have (if you’re sitting at a computer with internet reading this things aren’t hopefully too dire) but with who you are in Christ, where you are and what difficulties have been tasked out for your character.

     Hebrews 13:5 says it like this,  Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

     Did you catch that? The reason we can be content is because the real treasure to be won  is Christ! Wow.

     Like He said to Abraham „Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward” (Genesis 15:1).  Psalms 107:9 says,  For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

Seeking and finding Christ will always be worth it. God just doesn’t disappoint.