Today: Content In The Present
Psalm 16:5-6
January 12, 2025

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Psalm 16:5-6
GET THIS: As we are made content with the present, we will grow to be more faithful as stewards of today. And, in Christ alone, we have all that we need to be content.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. —Hebrews 13:8

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift, that’s why it is called the present.” —Grand Master Oogway (Kung Fu Panda)


Discontentment Is The Air We Breath

The Bible calls to us… inviting us…. into a place of contentedness and satisfaction.

Read Hebrews 13:5; Philippians 4:11; Psalm 145:16; Proverbs 19:23; Jeremiah 31:25

This is the invitation… but there is a binary reality to this invitation…

Read Proverbs 13:25

God’s design for His children is complete satisfaction, complete contentedness… but sin still works against us…

Before we know it, we want to be anywhere but where we are right then. We want to be somewhere else financially, relationally, physically, intellectually… etc.


It Is Good To Be Where Your Feet Are (Psalm 16:5-6)

I want to be where my feet are
I want to breathe the life around me
I want to listen as my heart beats
Right on time…
I want to be where my feet are

I chase my worries
I flee my sorrows
But what you give me
Is now
So take my burdens
And my tomorrows:
I want to be where my feet are

I run to capture
The next horizon
But what you give me
Is here
I get no farther
And still I find you
I want to be where my feet are

The ground below me
Is how you hold me
I want to be where my feet are —Porters Gate w/ Andrew Peterson - Centering Prayer

Read Psalm 16:5-6

First: Close Communion With God!

Second: The Satisfying Sufficiency of God!

Third: The Beautiful Goodness of Contentment

Other Scriptures: Numbers 18:20; Exodus 19:6; 1 Peter 2:9; Acts 17:26-27; John 17:20-21; John 4:34; John 6:35; Matthew 11:28-30


Apply This To Your Life

You’re here—where your feet are—to seek God all the more with each passing day!!!!

[1] ONE: You are where your feet are—To know communion with God!

Is He your portion? Is his steadfast love the narrative that shapes your day first thing upon waking and last thing upon sleeping?

[2] TWO: You are where your feet are—To experience God’s sufficiency!

And don’t just think about what you HAVE… but the lines that have fallen in your life… also determine what you DON’T HAVE…

[3] THREE: You are where your feet are—To know the beauty of contentment!

The grittiness of Contentedness is a real thing… but God’s design is for it to be way more than a chore… but a beautiful way of life!


Take Time To Reflect
(1) What does it look like for you practically—in consistent practice—to know God as your chosen portion?
(2) Where are you struggling to be content these days? With what you HAVE and with what you DON’T HAVE?
(3) When you hear the line, “i want to be where my feet are,” what is your personal response?


GET THIS: As we are made content with the present, we will grow to be more faithful as stewards of today. And, in Christ alone, we have all that we need to be content.