Whatever sits on the other side of your "if-only" is where you are looking for life, peace, joy, hope, and lasting contentment of heart.

Sturdy contentment that can weather the storms of difficulty and want is always rooted in worship.

I am designed to appreciate beautiful things, but I must not attach my identity to how many of those things I possess, and I must not let my heart be ruled by

Here is one of the most beautiful fruits of grace—a heart that is content, more given to worship than demand and more given to the joy of gratitude than the anxiety of want.

Envy tempts you to crave what is temporary while you devalue what is eternal. This never leads you anywhere good.

the more you focus on your own neediness, the more your desires will be christened as needs.

At the end of the day, what do you long for: for God's grace to do its work or for more of the stuff that this physical created world has to offer?

Perhaps in ways that you have never come close to considering, your dissatisfaction is an awe problem.

If you put too many things in your need category, you will end up frustrated with life, hurt by others, and doubting God's goodness.

the true crisis in the modern evangelical church is not dissatisfaction; it's the opposite. We're all too satisfied.

When I opt for a me-centered "more," what I actually get is always much, much less.

Here is the spiritual reality that you need to know, understand, and live in light of—if you love the gifts and not the Giver, your heart will never be satisfied, but if you love the Giver, your heart will be content and you will be able to enjoy his gifts while keeping them in their proper place.