Struggles - Contentment
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Senior LeaderMark Pomery
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has officially confirmed what many people thought all along: taking ‘selfies’ is a mental disorder. The disorder is called selfitis, and is defined as the obsessive compulsive desire to take photos of one’s self and post them on social media as a way to make up for the lack of self-esteem and to fill a gap in intimacy.
APA said there are three levels of the disorder:
• Borderline selfitis : taking photos of one’s self at least three times a day but not posting them on social media
• Acute selfitis: taking photos of one’s self at least three times a day and posting each of the photos on social media
• Chronic selfitis: Uncontrollable urge to take photos of one’s self round the clock and posting the photos on social media more than six times a day
Exodus Chapter 20 Verse 17
‘No lusting after your neighbor’s house—or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don’t set your heart on anything that is your neighbor’s.’
Ecclesiastes Chapter 6 Verse 9
‘Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don’t have. Just dreaming about nice things is meaningless—like chasing the wind.’
James Chapter 3 Verse 16
‘Whenever you’re trying to look better than others or get the better of others, things fall apart and everyone ends up at the others’ throats.’
Envy
Resenting God’s blessing in someone else's life and ignoring God’s blessing in your life
Areas Of Discontentment
Material & Financial
Areas Of Discontentment
Relational
Areas Of Discontentment
Circumstantial
James Chapter 3 Verse 16‘Actually, I don’t have a sense of needing anything personally. I’ve learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances. I’m just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I’ve found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty. Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am.’
Contentment isn’t found inwho follows us … it’s found
when we follow Jesus.
