How To Be Content

"HOW TO BE CONTENT"

"Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such
things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, or forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me" (Hebrews 13:5-6).
It is difficult to recognize that our character (conversation) or manner of life is an area of ethics that deals with our responsibility to ourselves. Our society wrongly insists that success is determined by the amount we can accumulate. The love of money is a common form of
covetousness (1 Timothy 6:10 "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith . .). The love of money is a common form of covetousness because it can be used to secure many other things that we want which displeases God. Jesus emphatically warns Man's life consisteth not in the abundance of things which he possesseth (Luke 12:15).

Contentment cannot come from material things, for they can never satisfy the heart. The desire to have more, and more and still more (GREED) interferes with contentment and like oil and water they are just not compatible. A source of great peace comes to those who love the Lord with all their heart and have trusted in His Word enough to know that He will never forsake or leave the true believer (v. 5). Wow! What contentment this produces and what confidence it gives in order that we need not fear any man.

"But godliness with contentment is great gain" (1 Timothy 6:6). -- Dr. Henry Lutz is a retired Pastor and a new contributor to Freedom Fighter.

God's WORD for YOU: Proverbs 13; Ezra 6-8; John 21

Great Quote: And let no man lose heart, and abandon a good scheme because he meets chopping seas and cross winds at the outset, since God may be thereby driving him on a better course, and toward greater ends than he ever dreamt of. Thomas Guthrie