*WISDOM FOR TODAY.*
*GODLINESS WITH CONTENTMENT...(2)*
*Scripture Treasure.*
1 Tim 6:6 *But godliness with contentment is great gain.*
*Insight and Highlight.*
You can have what you need or be able to afford what you need or want, and yet not be content.
*Scripture Commentaries.*
Having or being in a state of plenty does not necessarily mean a state of contentment.
Contentment is a virtue.
Contentment is the bridge that connects wants and needs to satisfaction.
It makes what can be in your affordable reach to be what you ultimately want and need.
When you are not able to reach a point where what is within your affordable reach is what you want or need, then life becomes a struggle, and a rat race chasing shadows.
Solomon teaches that one may have all that he wants but may not have all he needs, and he teaches that one may have both but not fulfilled. In the end, one ends as having nothing.
He says life becomes vanity. He says you get to a point where you want everything.
He says in Eccl 2:10 *Anything my eyes desired, I did not deny myself. I refused my heart no pleasure. For my heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor.*
He says you want everything, but you end up getting nothing.
Eccl 2:11 *Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.*
In Eccl 1:8, he says, *"All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.*
Contentment teaches us the difference between want and need.
Housing is a need because it is one of the basic needs of life. It is not a want. It is not negotiable.
Contentment teaches affordability or what is within your means. The same goes for every other basic need of life.
It teaches the pursuit of affordable housing and that you do not have to buy what you want but what you need.
When you are able to reach a point where what is within your affordable reach is what you want or need, then you are content!
*Remorse corner.*
Contentment is the meeting point where what you could afford becomes what you need and your ultimate satisfaction.
*Call to Word action.*
When you are content, little with peace is better than more with pain..
Contentment says, *"Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.*, Prov 17:1
*The Christian clarion duty.*
Solomon teaches that when you crave after more than you need, the less satisfied you will become, Eccl 2:10.
*Prayer.*
Lord, let me live in godliness with contentment, in Jesus name.
Good morning all, and have a blessed day.
God bless you.
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