We live in a culture that defines the word enough as “just a little bit more.” We fill bags with clothes that are perfectly good but not perfect enough. We read magazines or watch home improvement shows that cause us to look at a piece of furniture we love as something we no longer like.

It is possible to be surrounded by God’s blessings and live focused on what we don’t have instead of all that he has provided. 

I sometimes wonder how God is going to correct our way of thinking. God disciplines behaviors that keep people from understanding his truth. Paul told the Philippians, “My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” 

Has God met your needs? Has God given you more than you would ever have asked or expected from him? If that’s the case, praise him from whom all blessings flow! We won’t ever have all we want, but that’s because we will always want more than God wants us to have.

Paul taught that we have found favor with God if our “needs” are met. I remember when, as a young married couple, we rejoiced to open our small U-Haul and unload everything we owned into our little duplex. It took about one hour for four of us to get all of it off the truck and inside the house. We opened those boxes and had everything we needed to live. Four-plus decades later, we have so much more. We praise God, not for the stuff we have accumulated, but for all the years that “stuff” represents.

Living with wisdom is a path to God’s blessings. Wisdom sheds the light of God’s perspective on everything in this world. Do your blessings meet your needs? If so, you have been abundantly blessed. Wisdom is knowing you have lived on God’s path of blessing. Joy and contentment are the blessings of knowing you have everything you need according to his riches in Christ Jesus.