Divine Discontent

From the classic bestseller devotional God's Best for My Life by Lloyd John Ogilvie:

'Tell me what makes you discontent and I will tell you what drives you. Show me your indignations and I will show you the imperatives by which you live. Tell me what stirs you up enough to want to change things, and I will tell you whether you are living while you are alive.

Jesus affirms a creative discontent as a major characteristic of discipleship. This is a part of life as it was meant to be. A driving dissatisfaction with ourselves, our relationship with God, and the world in which we live is evidence that we are in touch with the Holy Spirit.

If a dominant desire is in us to grow, to live more fully, to heal the wounds of the world, to bring justice to the dispossessed and suffering, then the Lord is at work in us. Too few of us have a fermentive unrest, disturbed with the inconsistency in ourselves and society....

When our dissatisfactions are in harmony with Christ's, then we know that we can depend on His power to find an answer.'

This is a deep one to ponder. Winners have a divine discontent.