True Contentment
By Alyssa Ruzicka
First of all, how are all of you? Can you believe summer is over?!?! I am missing it already! This summer, I took a Driver's Ed. class. It was definitely one of the high points of my summer, and I'm not just talking about the whole driving part--which is soooo exciting!!!!
In that class, I was the only home schooler. This was a growing experience for me. I got to see how most high schoolers live everyday. It is a totally different atmosphere. The boys are different, the girls are different, and the teachers are different. It is so sad, because a lot of them don't know there is a better way to live.--And I saw just a glimpse, the class was four days long.
As some of you may know quite well, home schooling is sometimes a hard thing to feel content in your heart about. It is also challenging when you have friends in school. I see now, and have been realizing more and more; that you really have to be committed in your heart to what you are doing, and what God wants you to do. When you are living for Him, there is no way you can be half-way committed to doing things. You have to submit with your whole heart, and be content.
Whenever I feel discontented (often), it is so difficult to submit and go along
with it. I try to avoid it; hoping I can stay discontent and still obey. In
the end, I have to seek God about my heart, or my "problem". It is so much
easier, I have realized many times, just to have a content heart, and not
struggle through something. The most important part is that I am supposed to
have true contentment
in my heart about it.
After going to that class, I really see that I was not all the way committed to doing what God wanted for me, only half- way committed. I am so glad I went to that class and got to experience a small awakening/break-through; I feel in my heart that home schooling is what God wants for me; AND, I can drive now!!!!. I am really thankful for what He has for me. God obviously has His ways for getting our hearts in the right place. It doesn't mean that we always like what we are doing at first, but He wants us to be pliable and workable for Him, not disagreeable.
I Timothy 6:6~ But Godliness with contentment is great gain.
Proverbs 23:17-18 ~Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always be zealous for the fear of the Lord. There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.
~This year, I would really like for other teens to submit things in the newsletter or the website. If anything comes to your mind, let me know. I really think it is good for others to have this opportunity, I have enjoyed it.