Contentment?

It's been coming up a lot lately: this tension between knowing God has already given us so much more than we deserve, so to be content with what we have - but also seeing that there are things broken or out of place in our world and lives and for it to be ok to desire healing and progress towards the ideal - while accepting it if God keeps us living somewhere short of perfect through no fault of our own.

Like a lesser example would be food. We are wretches deserving eternity in hell. Instead God gives us new life in Christ and on top of that, daily bread. For this we should be thankful. But also if our bread lacks the nutrition God designed our bodies to thrive on, or if the pesticides used to grow the wheat cause toxicity in our bodies - it is ok to want different food. It could be argued it is good to pursue different food. But if all the food we can get is that same bread - or a little better bread, but still not all the way to the nutrition that would be optimal, God is still faithful and generous and we can trust Him. 

I think it is just hard to sort out what times we're being tempted to wicked discontentment and what times we're being prompted to go after changes, and if we are, how much of our energy we should put into that. Maybe we ideally need more rain, more back rubs, more time praising God with our friends. And maybe God wants us to endure lack, to find our sufficiency in Christ, to know the supremacy in our hearts of His love. Or maybe He wants us to work less hours or scroll less Facebook and host more worship gatherings? Maybe, at the very least, He wants us to ask Him for the things we perceive that we need.

To God be all glory.