Recipe for how to be content

Ecclesiastes 3:11

… He also set eternity in the hearts of men that they cannot fathom (измерять глубину) what God has done from beginning to end.

Of course our hearts and our souls want much more than we have now here on this earth.

In the book “Calm my anxious heart” written by Linda Dillow  there is a «recipe» -- how to be content with your life:

1. Never allow yourself to complain about anything even of the weather

2. Never imagine yourself in different circumstances or in a different place

3.  Never compare your life with someone else’s life

4.  Never allow yourself to wish that things would go differently

5. Never live tomorrow, remember tomorrow belongs to God not to us.

Matthew 6:31-34

So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

God gave us enough energy for today. If we will be worrying about tomorrow and even further future then we will waste all the energy God has given to us for today to worry about what will possibly happen tomorrow or the other day. As a result we don’t have even energy for