Contentment

Contentment

Godliness with contentment is great gain.

- 1 Timothy 6:6 -

Psychologist Joseph Kreisler said, "If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself and what you want. You will spoil everything you touch, and finally you will make pain and misery out of everything God sent you."

    Paul would have agreed! He wrote, "Godliness with contentment is great gain." And Paul knew how it is to be content in whatever situation. Paul had been shipwrecked three times. He had been brutally beaten five times and "forty-stripes-save-one." He had walked across most of Asia Minor, traveling hundreds of miles to tell how Jesus Christ transforms lives. Paul had no income or pension, no insurance or endowment, yet, he didn't worry about his next meal, security, position or his future. In fact, he wrote, "I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content" ( Philippians 4:11 KJV )

    Contentment can be your portion too, as you learn that God cares for His own. You can be content and happy or miserable and frustrated, as you please. You are the one who decides.

“Hope is patiently waiting expectantly for the intangible to become reality.” - Avery D. Miller