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Discontentment is rampant in our culture.
I like restaurants like In n’ Out where there’s only a few things on the menu.
When there are so many things on a menu it’s hard to be content with any one option.
Our society is a lot like a restaurant where there are far too many things on the menu.
We have options for everything.
But, something interesting is happening, today, when it comes to relationships.
It used to be pretty standard.
You graduate high school and either go to college, the military, or a job and then you try to get married.
Relationships progressed: single, dating, engaged, married—a pretty simple progression that most people followed.
But, we live in a more complicated world today.
We have a sexually fluid society, where there are so many different relationship status’s, most people prefer to leave their relationships undefined.
You might have two people having sex, but have absolutely no relational attachment and then two other people who have almost no physical contact, but they’re planning a wedding.
It’s very complicated.
For so long discontentment in marriage has been driving up divorce rates.
But, now for the first time ever, divorce rates are actually going down.
Why? Because, we tend to deal with discontentment by refusing to commit.
And that’s precisely what our society does.
We refuse to define our relationship status as a defence against discontentment.
But, something interesting is happening in our culture when it comes to relationships.
For so long discontentment in marriage has been driving up divorce rates.
But, now for the first time ever, divorce rates are actually going down.
We tend to deal with discontentment, today, by refusing to commit to something.
And that’s precisely what our culture does.
We refuse to define our relationship status’.
And that’s how many treat relationships.
When you commit to something, you give it power.
When you place your order at a restaurant and you know you have to pay for whatever you order, your plate comes and you feel pressure to eat it whether you like it or not, because you’re committed.
Now, if you like it, you may find yourself content.
But, if you don’t like it, you’re discontent.
So, you might go to the all you can eat buffet.
Because, then if you don’t like it, there’s no pressure to eat it.
You can just go get something else that you may like.
And this is what is happening to relationships, particularly for young people.
It’s an all you can eat buffet.
You refuse to DTR, you refuse to define the relationship, so that there is no discontentment if the relationship progresses or digresses in one way or another.
And that’s interesting, because, in our Bible text for today, we see that the Apostle Paul—the author of the book we are studying—calls us to contentment, regardless of our relationship status.
And that’s interesting, because, in our Bible text for today, we see that the Apostle Paul calls us to contentment, regardless of our relationship status.
Paul was a teacher who brought the message about Jesus all over the Roman Empire and many of his letters are recorded in the Bible.
So, Paul says, go ahead and DTR, because there is a way to be content, wherever you are at.
He writes,
Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him.
This is my rule in all the churches.
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