Contentment Commanded?

Posted : Tuesday June 19, 2007 |

Are you content with what you have? If not, then why? Read Hebrews 13: 1-6. In the midst of exhorting Christians to live according to the gospel, the writer to the Hebrews actually COMMANDS contentment. Just as contentment is the result of a life that trusts God, it is also the means of trusting God. To be discontent is to accuse God with either being unloving or impotent. God is either uncaring or unable to meet our true needs is the mantra of the discontented. Contentment with our lives is therefore as important as love, hospitality, mercy, or fidelity.

Sadly, we live in a culture of discontent. Every day we see an average of 3500 ads, each trying to convince us that what we have is not good enough. We need something new, something better, something more fashionable then we will be happy, Desires become hopes, which become wants, which become NEEDS. I’ve just got to have that new HDTV wide screen TV Once the newness wears off, its the same old story time for some new thing or relationship,

Paul addresses Timothy to stay focused on the lasting JOY of contentment when he said “Godliness with contentment is great gain” “For we brought nothing into the world and we will take nothing out of it” ITim6:6

PRAY For a renewed heart that is content with Gods provision, that isn’t always looking for new things for satisfaction.

John Steinruck