I dread going to work every single morning. Is that God telling me to change something, or am I just after an easier life?

“Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.”

Ecclesiastes was written by a man who had tried every project and pleasure available to a king and still came up empty. This section is his honest audit of his own career, and he does not hide the despair he felt looking back at it. Scripture makes room for that feeling, which means your Monday morning dread is not by itself proof of weak faith.

“Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.”

Paul wrote to the Philippians from prison, thanking them for a gift while insisting he had learned to manage with little or with plenty. Contentment, he says, was learned rather than felt automatically. He is not telling you to like a bad situation. He is saying that steadiness inside one is something God teaches over time, usually in the situation itself.