pre-cooked bacon and 28.8 dial-up modems

if you haven't noticed our society moves at near lightspeed. we want everything to be faster and faster. if i can't have what i want in 5 seconds then its too slow. sorry i can't wait for 10 min. to fry some bacon i need to by the pre-cooked crap that i pop into the microwave for literally 10 seconds and there i have hot cooked bacon.
14.4 modems turned into 28.8 which turned in 56.6 until we felt like we could get corn rows faster than we could load a website on your Intel 486 processors. Now we have cable modems, Pentium fours and we get anxious when it takes more than 3 seconds. life is getting faster. its moving a greater pace and sometimes i feel myself lagging behind. see life gets faster but we get used to the pace and we want it faster. now instant isn't even good enough soon we're going to want things before we want them, if thats even possible. but i think you get my point.
all this to say that the point is that society breeds in us a healthy sensitivity for discontent. the idea is that the only thing that could honestly make a society that has too much want more is discontent. the problem is that we let society make us discontent with last years model, as if somehow our value is less because the newest model is out and we don't have it NOW. somehow i feel less of a person because i have a dial-up modem instead of a cable one. im not content with what i have, i need more, i need faster, i need... etc. (or i want more, i want faster, i want... etc.)
this need/want for more or faster is rooted in discontent.
the thing is that we, as Christians, tend to get this same attitude. we're not happy where God has us, whether physically or spiritually. we want to be on to the next stage of our journey with Christ. i mean what happens when someone in an instant society is in the slow process of spiritual formation? discontent. "be anxious for nothing..." (phil.4:6) i mean there is a reason Paul says this. if we got everything we wanted, when we wanted it we would never take the time to appreciate where God has us today.
sometimes i think that we think we're worshipping God, when a lot of times we're just worshipping our own gratification of personal progression.
as followers of Christ, as beings still being formed by the Creator it is essential for us to realize that we need to be truly grateful for where God has us today. we have to know that our value doesn't come from the fact that we can progress and only when we are progressing are we valuable. no our value comes from the simple fact that God loves us. does Christ want us to progress spiritually? and emotionally and physically for that matter? YES. but being discontent with where you are now is only showing a disregard for the work Christ is doing within you today.