Contentment. Now there’s a word to let rattle around the corridors of our minds. Contentment is not just a “sometimes” thing…it’s an “all the time” thing.  Are you content, right now…with your circumstances, right now? Challenging thought, isn’t it? God’s will is for us is to be content…to practice contentment in His will for us. Contentment. It might just be one of the many things He’s trying to teach us in this present season of life…before He lets us move on.  Are we being teachable? Are we learning?  “School” is always in session.

Philippians 4:11-13

…I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. 12 I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need. 13 I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.

“Contentment is not satisfaction. It is the grateful, faithful, fruitful use of what we have, little or much. It is to take the cup of Providence, and call upon the name of the Lord. What the cup contains is its contents. To get all that is in the cup is the act and art of contentment. Not to drink because one have but half a cup, or because one does not like its flavour, or because somebody else has silver to one’s own glass, is to lose the contents; and that is the penalty, if not the meaning, of discontent. No one is discontented who employs and enjoys to the utmost what he has. It is high philosophy to say, we can have just what we like if we like what we have; but this much at least can be done, and this is contentment: to have the most and best in life by making the most and best of what we have.” ~ Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Blessings,

Pastor Dave