Women's Retreat and Contentment

Our last week in Nairobi was for the women's retreat. Cynthia Heald was our speaker for the week and she talked all about being content. It was a great reminder, but I also learned a lot. It went right along with what I believe God has been teaching me for the past few months about how I must CHOOSE. I must choose to believe that God is who He says He is. I must choose to believe the I am who He says I am. I must choose to believe that He HAS made me holy so I CAN live each day in holiness, my first inclination is no longer sin. I must choose to be content. So each morning it is my decision on how I'm going to live. Will I choose to believe God, that He is right and that He is good or will I choose to believe I can do it all? I know the outcome of both. I have chosen to believe that I can do everything in my own strength and I have seen myself fail. Yes there have been many times where I've chosen to do things in my own strength and I have made it through, but then my strength decreases as I continue to do things thinking I have control. But God, His strength never changes. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. His strength never decreases. So why would I choose to live by my own power when it steadily decreases? Why would I do that when I know that if I choose to live by His power, I will always succeed because He never fails?