Are you serving the Lord? If so, check your motive. Make sure your desire is to please the Lord and not men.
The distance between man and God is great. This is partly based on the greatness of God, but the distance is magnified even more by the lowliness of man.
Contentment is a precious gift and one that the scriptures say must be learned. It is not merely satisfaction, but it is a joyous peace that what we have is exactly what we are supposed to have and that nothing else could top it.
These things describe a middle of the road believer: steps of a good man, delight of a good man, and fall of a good man.
we are not as close to God as we ought to be
