David- got in trouble because he just wanted more than God gave him at the moment. We do that. David was the king. He had anything he wanted. But, he wanted just one more thing that God hadn’t given him permission to have. David should have just said, thank you Lord and be content. Of course it’s easy to say David should have gone back into the palace, quit looking where he shouldn’t have been looking and be content. It’s easy for us to tell David he should have… when we don’t.
We have a wants and needs list and not always do we have our wants and needs in the lines they need to be. We think it’s a need and God is really saying, “put it on the want side”. We want something and we tend to think it needs to be a need. After all, doesn’t God meet our needs? He doesn’t always meet our wants. I tend to put together lists… I love lists. I love lists except when I can’t find where I put them. If I take my list and work it….it usually works for me. I go to the grocery store and get what’s on my list… Unless I lose the list. If I keep track of the wonderful blessings God has given me, I can say thank you and be content. It’s when I look at the things I thought I needed, and God hasn’t given me yet, that I tend to be discontent. And then God gives my neighbor the very thing that I thought I needed…. I tend to shed a tear and throw a mini fit! Well, to be honest maybe a major fit.
I need to just say thank you more often and be content. Being thankful helps us be content. Even when the list is still there and the many things we thought we needed haven’t been met, we can be thankful and content knowing that God promised we will have what we need…
In 2 Samuel 12:8 reminds us that God gave David so much. “I gave your master’s house to you, and your masters’s wives into your arms, I gave you all Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more.”
That last part of the verse really jumped at my heart. “If all this had been too little.. I would have given you even more.” God has given me so much. But I seem to think it’s too little. God will give me blessings upon blessings… but he will give me based on his measuring cup not mine. My challenge for the week will be to be thankful and content. Or perhaps content and thankful. Regardless, I want to let God know I love what he has blessed me with.. and I am thankful!
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