According to Melissa Kruger, our discontented hearts need some coaching from the Apostle Paul.

The mountain of contentment is a harder mountain to climb than any other one you will physically face.

But he says, I can do everything through Christ who gives me strength.

I'm so glad you've joined us for the Reviver Hearts podcast for November 1st,

2023.

I'm Dana Gresh, and our host is the author of Choosing Gratitude, Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth.

Dana, we're going to talk today about what I've come to believe is one of the most important

graces that we can have as believers and particularly as women. In fact, I think the presence

of this quality is one of the biggest things that makes a woman beautiful. And that's the quality

of contentment. Yes. And it sounds like such a nice, sweet thing, and it shouldn't be all that hard,

but I found that if I'm not vigilant, if I'm not always on my guard, I get sucked into this

sort of rip current of life in this broken, fallen world around me. And I start subtly focusing

on what I don't have that I want or what I have

that I don't want, and suddenly there's this root of discontentment poking its head up in my heart.

You are not alone, Nancy. I couldn't agree more. I feel like it's easy for me to be content

in magnificent moments in my life, but when

I'm in the mundane, routine pressure of life, sometimes I find myself battling against the

tendency to be discontent. And honestly, I've got to tell you, one of the places I've noticed

where it really triggers my discontent

is when I'm spending too much time on social media.

Oh, yes.

Scrolling mindlessly through Instagram and seeing all these new beautiful kitchens and things that

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