Contentment

Are you content? Do you experience contentment? Or are you continued discontented? What is it that you are discontented about when you are not content? Are you seeking to be contented? Do you know how to achieve it?

Being contented can be allusive. We can chase after it in many ways for a very long time and never achieve it. We attempt to achieve it with possessions, making more money, finding the right partner, raising a family, or you name it. Yet, we may never be fully content.

The writer of Hebrews says we are to live free from the love of money. He doesn’t say we should not work to be paid. But we are not to make it a priority to make more money. We are not to make climbing the corporate ladder our priority. Now, that doesn’t mean we don’t do the best we can in our job for we are told to work as though we are working for God (Colossians 3:23).

We find contentment when we live for God. It is when we come to the full realization that God is always with and always working things for our good that we find the peace that is beyond understanding, resulting in a contentment we cannot explain. When we trust God in all situations, we live without worry, anxiety, and fear.

Being content may appear to some as being indifferent, yet it isn’t. Others will be amazed at the calmness we have when things go wrong. The Apostle Paul said he had learned to be content in with whatever he had (Philippians 4:11). So, it is something we can learn. Therefore, we should seek to learn to trust God is in control and he is always with us.

I pray we give up our love of money. I pray we learn to trust God is in control and working things for our good. I pray each one of us find the peace of God and the contentment only he can give us. Give up your love of money. Trust God. Know he is always with you. Find contentment.

Hebrews 13:5 Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for he himself has said, “I will never leave you or forsake you.”