Why Am I Lacking?

Let's pray the prayer of David, where he said... search my heart oh god see if there's any offensive broken wicked way in me and then lead me in the way everlasting he has better for us amen all right top 10 reasons why you might be lacking because you're leaking here's some leaks i want to i want to highlight here's the first one are you ready it's because you're mistaken about prosperity in the first place You have a mistaken vision of what prosperity actually is.

And you're disappointed because you're chasing after things that can't actually and ultimately satisfy you in the first place.

I've heard it said before that our level of contentment is the distance between our expectations and reality.

To the degree that your expectations meet your reality, that's your level of fulfillment and contentment.

And this gap between what we'd expected or hoped or envisioned and what we're experiencing is often the space where we experience disappointment and discontentment, dissatisfaction, disillusionment.

It's from unmet expectations.

And here's the truth.

Many of us feel like we're lacking in our lives because we're going in our life with a level of disappointment because we don't have much money, We don't have a nice house.

We don't have things that we would consider to be riches or blessings.

And then our experience is a far cry from what we envision the good life to be.

A lot of us are disappointed and dissatisfied with what we don't have.

But the problem is we have a mistaken vision of what prosperity is in the first place.

We are taught in this world to value and cherish things that the Bible says aren't actually that valuable.

We live our lives in search of treasures that the scripture reveals to be fool's gold.

Fool's gold is a metal that upon first glance looks like valuable, precious gold, but once it's exposed to time and the elements, it reveals itself to be anything but.

It eventually shows itself to not be of any real value.

It's a counterfeit treasure.

And the world has overvalued things that in the end turns out to be fool's gold.

Money, comfort, status, toys, things, accolades, vacations.

We consider these things what make a person to be rich.

Having lots of power and money and margin to do what I want when I want.

A lack of responsibility, freedom from obligation.

But we inevitably run into disappointment when our definition of the good life is still according to the value system of the world.

We mistakenly think, okay, Jesus promises me the good life.

He says, I came that you would have life and have it more abundantly.