A Prayer for a Discontent at Heart Written by Chelsea DeMadis and Read by Kelly Givens

Rejoice and hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer, Romans 12-12.

Discontentment isn't a feeling we freely usher in.

No discontentment, like many other negative feelings, seems to sneak in the back door of

our hearts.

What began as a day of simple frustrations turns into the theme for a week, which somehow

snowball into a seemingly long season of our life.

If I'm being honest, I think we may be the most discontented, disappointed people I've

seen in my generation.

We've allowed the back door feelings to take the stage of our lives and start fighting

for the throne of our hearts.

This takes me straight to Eve in the garden when discontentment plagued the heart of man.

Satan came to Eve questioning, did God actually say you shall not eat of any tree in the

garden?

Here we have it, the inkling of discontentment shuffled in the back door of her heart,

the same way it does for you and me.

Something that has always struck me when reading the Bible, especially the New Testament,

is how often we are reminded that tribulation and trials will occur.

It's a promise that we are to endure hard things, but we want to door them alone.

Just like Eve's moment of discontentment, I think of Nicodemus, who was a Pharisee.

He sought out Jesus, our Savior, in the middle of the night to answer the questions he was

wrestling with.

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