Feed Your Holy Discontent
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The tendency for most of us when we encounter stuff that creates dis-ease and frustration in our souls is to push it away. And fast! We feel the discomfort of holy discontentedness coming on, and reflexively we want to medicate it. We want to recoil in disgust at the dreadful realities surrounding us. We want to head to Blockbuster to rent another movie just to stay distanced from it.
- Holy Discontent, p. 67
Finding Your Holy Discontent is Only the First Step.
To Have Real Impact, You Must Feed It Too.
In HOLY DISCONTENT, author Bill Hybels says, “Once you find your holy discontent, do whatever you must do to feed it. If this sounds counterintuitive, it’s because it is. But as I’ve often said, the ongoing danger regarding a person’s holy discontent is that its energy will wane. The fuel will dry up. The firestorm will fizzle out.
“No matter how amped up we are about something that wrecks us, time and repetition take a toll.
Another plate of food for a starving orphan,
Another late-night music rehearsal for an artist,
Another tutoring class for an inner-city child—
If we aren’t diligent to feed our holy discontent, we will assuredly become ‘weary in well doing’ (Galatians 6:9), to borrow a phrase from the apostle Paul.”
So, what does it look like to “feed” your holy discontent? The following assessment will help you to sort that out. First, note your holy discontent on the line below. Then, work through each of the three parts that follow: Take Stock, Chart Your Change, and Commit Today.
