From Jealous to Content

This weekend in Velocity we concluded our series called eMotion. Each week we’ve been discussing how we can move from one negative emotion toward a more positive one.

This week we talked about how we can move from Jealousy to Contentment. We live in a society that pushes us to want more and need more all of the time. Being content goes against everything society tells us. But in Philippians 4:11-13 Paul tells us that with God’s help we can learn to be content in every situation. We can do that because we know that God has a plan for us (Jeremiah 29:11-14) and he wants to give us good things (James 1:17).

We watched a video about a father whose son really wanted a little ball from a mall kiosk. But the father had something so much better in store for his son, if only he would trust him. This week, “when you find yourself standing at the kiosk, asking, ‘Why can’t I have what I want?’ may you believe that God is good, and that across the street he has something better.”