Title: Content? Or Everything Would Be Ok If? 
Meta: Everything would be okay if _____ ? What comes to your mind, if anything? Have I put something plus Jesus in my equation for contentment?
Tags: content,Jesus,Christian,believer

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What plus Jesus have I put in my equation for contentment?

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And I'll just think about some

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of the things I speak with some of the

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saints in the assembly about.

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Here's a good way to ask

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it in your own heart.

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Everything would be ok if _____?

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What?

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What comes to your mind in that?

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Everything would be ok.

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I'd have soul satisfaction.

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I've got Jesus, but everything would be ok, if ____?

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This.

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Everything would be ok if I was married.

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Or if you are married,

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everything would be ok if my husband

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would just lead me like those other

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men lead their wives.

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Everything would be ok with me

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if my wife would just be submissive

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like some of those other wives.

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How about this?

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We spoke about unity in our church.

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Everything would be ok if Charles Leiter was my pastor.

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It'd be great.

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Or if the people in my congregation

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were like those people at

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the Fellowship Conference.

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Just so zealous for the Lord.

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Everything would be ok in my life

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if I could just have a fellowship like that.

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You know what all of those say?

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Jesus isn't enough.

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Beloved, it is not wrong to want to be married.

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Next month, I'll be married for twenty years,

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and I'm so thankful for my wife.

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It's not wrong for you to want

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your spouse to grow,

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to become more Christlike.

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It's not wrong for you to want to have health.

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That's not wrong.

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It's not wrong for you to want your church to grow.

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It's not wrong for you to want your pastors to grow.

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You should enjoy those things.

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But let me tell you this,

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Christ is the full substance

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of only what those things can point to.

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Do you realize that?

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You say I love coming to the Fellowship Conference.

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It's like heaven on earth.

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Let me tell you this,

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Christ is better.

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I want to be married,

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I want to enjoy companionship,

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I want to walk with somebody.

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Amen.

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That's a blessing from the Lord,

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but I want you to know this,

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Christ is better than that.

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I want health. I want this body to be restored.

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Let me tell you this,

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Christ is better.

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Those things should be enjoyed.

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Health should be enjoyed.

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Marriage or singleness should be enjoyed.

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The fellowship of the church, your pastors should be enjoyed.

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But those things all point you

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to something greater.

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It's the Giver of all of those things.

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It's the fulfillment of what all those things could never be.

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It's Jesus Christ.

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I'm convinced most of us are miserable

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if we're honest.

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And it's because we're looking to something

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that can never give you what you're looking for.

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You're looking horizontally what can

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only be found vertically in Jesus Christ.

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It's not wrong to want those things.

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But it's wrong to not be content

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if you don't have them.

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Because, it says,

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"Jesus, You're not enough for me."