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Made For This with Jennie Allen

S2: 06 - Discontent

Made For This with Jennie Allen

Made For This with Jennie Allen

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Is there something I'm missing out on? Is there something better out there? Discontent is part of our story from the very beginning in the Garden of Eden. But let me tell you... I don't have any self-help answers for you to stop being so discontent. There's only one answer to this ache in our souls and I want to talk about it in this episode.

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0:00.0

Hey guys this is Jenny Allen and you are listening to the Made for This

0:04.5

podcast. Today's passage is from Ecclesiasties 4 versus 4 through 8.

0:23.0

Then I saw that all toil and all skill and work come from a man's envy of his neighbor.

0:28.2

This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

0:31.5

The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh. Better is a handful

0:35.3

of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind. Again I saw

0:39.9

vanity under the sun, one person who has no other, either son or brother.

0:44.6

Yet there is no end to all his toil and his eyes are never satisfied with riches so that he never

0:48.8

asks, for whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure. This also is vanity and an unhappy

0:54.4

business. And now let's hear from Jenny. Some of our good friends when they were trying to decide if they were going to get

1:09.6

married or not the guy sat down with Zach and they had been dating probably for about six years and they were perfect for each other.

1:18.6

I mean it was obvious to everybody and we couldn't figure out why it was that he wasn't pulling the trigger and

1:24.0

asking the question and Zach asked him what is holding you back what's keeping you

1:27.7

from this and he said I'm just so afraid that there's something better

1:31.1

out there and I feel that and I get that when I like

1:35.8

go down the cereal aisle like I hate this honestly I know this is weird but I hate the

1:39.9

cereal aisle I feel so overwhelmed by it because I really love Cinnamon

1:44.7

Toast Crunch. It's my very favorite cereal. But now they've made

1:48.4

something called churrows, which is like Cinnamon Toast Crunch,

1:51.0

but even more cool. And then they also have like a

1:54.2

vanilla crunch that is unbelievable and that's just in that little section like I

1:59.0

can't tell you how much I love frosted many weeds and I mean I just I can't

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