John 6:1-14 | What's the lesson for me today?

As I examine my life, there is a question I find I have answered far too quickly in times past without truly meditating upon the answer. "Am I truly satisfied in Jesus?" I think a lot of us would hurry to say yes. I have done that dozens of times over when I asked myself this question. As the Lord grew wisdom within me, I started to pause. A new question entered me, "If I am truly satisfied in Jesus, why do other things move me?" This became a major pursuit of mine. I wanted the Lord to be everything to me, but as I was honest with myself, I saw that He wasn't. I wanted other things beyond Him and I was unsatisfied if I did not have those things.

 11 Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: 12 I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
-Philippians 4:11-13

I remember looking through this section of Scripture and wrestling with whether or not I was truly content in the Lord. It went hand in hand with my former line of questioning. I saw that I genuinely wanted more. More this... more that... just more. That was symptomatic of a very dangerous spiritual issue. It meant that, to me, Jesus was not enough. Something had to change. So much of my life was uprooted there. I saw how much discontentment was bred into our culture. I sought to distance myself from grumbling and complaining and instead adopt a lifestyle of praise and thanksgiving to the Lord. Yet, even years later, I still ask myself the question. Being prompted by this devotion I ask myself even now, am Itruly satisfied in Jesus?

What lesson are you taking for yourself today?