We were saved to serve God, but Satan wants to distract us from God using the world’s allurements. One of the greatest needs in life is contentment. Contentment comes only by applying God’s doctrines to my life.
Any lack of contentment signals a deficiency in experiencing God’s truth. Just as prayerfulness reflects how much we need God, so our:
Contentment Reflects How Well We Know God
When embraced by choice, three key truths about God release contentment into our lives: God’s goodness, omniscience, and omnipotence.
When we hold those truths, we accept our personal unworthiness, mortify our personal worldliness, pursue our friendship with God, and enjoy greater satisfaction in God.
Contentment is satisfaction with God’s goodness, omniscience, and omnipotence.
Contentment produces a peaceful, thankful, and happy-with-what-you-have type of life. It unleashes God’s power into my life and ministry, whether bad or good.
Among all the saints of the Bible, Paul was probably one of the greatest of God’s servants. The vast majority of all believers down through the past two thousand years have been taught by Paul’s Epistles or came to Christ through one of Paul’s spiritual children. He started more churches in the early days, traveled more miles, and did more to spread Christ’s church than any other. How was Paul so effective? Maybe it was because of:
Paul’s Testimony on Contentment
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