The “greener grass syndrome” tells you that you can’t be happy where you are right now. You need to go somewhere else. Do something else. Be with someone else. The life you’re living is terrible. Everyone else has a better life. If you could just get a little more, you’d be happy too.
But it doesn’t matter how much you’ve accumulated
if you can’t enjoy what you have. “God gives some people wealth, possessions
and honor, so that they lack nothing their hearts desire, but God does not
grant them the ability to enjoy them” Eccl. 6:2 (NIV). If you don’t have
the God-given ability to enjoy life, you’ll never by happy no matter where you go or what you
get.
But there really is green grass available to be found. It’s located
in Psalm 23:1-2. “The Lord is my shepherd . . . He
makes me lie down in green pastures.” Notice it doesn’t say He makes us
run all over the world searching for green pastures. When we follow the
Shepherd, He makes us lie down in it. That’s a restful, relaxed spirit.
The grass is always greenest in the center of God’s will. Discontentment always points us to a place where God isn’t leading, but contentment is always happy wherever He leads. That’s where you’ll be the most satisfied and fulfilled, and where you’ll be most pleasing to the Lord. But you’ll never find the greener grass unless you follow the Shepherd. www.kentcrockett.blogspot.com
I LOVE THIS SONG: The New 23rd Psalm
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