Want is big in our world. Who doesn’t want something? What about something bigger? Nicer? Faster? We want.
When asked how much money it takes to make a man happy, John D. Rockefeller replied, “Just one more dollar.” Or how about one more thing? One new job? One new car? One new house? One new spouse?
But then the new job gets old. The new-car smell passes. The new house needs repairs. The new spouse has bad habits, and the sizzle fizzles.
Are you hoping that a change in circumstances will bring a change in your attitude?
Consider what David said in Psalm 23:1, “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.”
Click here for more from Max Lucado’s Traveling Light & Philip Keller’s A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23