You can read my fuller review at Spoiled Milks (9/2/19).

Marriage, kids, and jobs don't fulfill the way we hope they would. People and things disappoint.

We don't like to hear it, but God tells us we spiritually can't do anything on our own. We were dead in sin (Eph 2:1-3), blind, ignorant rebels who were slaves to sin and Satan. Yet our merciful God reached down and saved us (Titus 3:5). Yet how do we often thank our merciful God? By spewing out bland grumbling obscenities on how bored we are with our unexciting lives. Yet by doing so we accuse God of acting wrongly in our lives. Because of that we don't love him as we should (since we are not utterly thankful for him), and so we slide into self-justified sins (38).

We need to change our desires. Hill writes that "we don't always desire the right things in the right way to the right degree" (45). We aren't to refuse our desires, but change and shape our desires. God has ultimately changed our desires by giving us a new heart, putting us in the new covenant, and giving us his Holy Spirit. Comparing spiritual desires with our desire for food, Hill notes, "Just as changing our eating habits doesn't mean we must stop ever being hungry, pursuing contentment doesn't require us to avoid desire completely" (45).

This was a great devotional on an important topic. Take her reflections seriously and read the Scripture she puts forth. Try even to memorize some of the daily Scriptures (use the Andy Davis method; perhaps I'll write a post on this one day).To pick on the Americans, we like to exaggerate. Our jokes and stories are often told in a way to one-up the other person. We want things to be bigger and better than before. It's funny with stories, but this creeps into how we think and live. We exaggerate our situation and think it is much worse than what it is. God is on our side, and he has given us so much The hardships, whether they be boring, grueling, or riddled with anxiety, are there to grow us to be more like Christ.