Monday, February 25 Content or Contentious?
Having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.
1 Timothy 6:8
Some people are contentious and others are content. Some strive and struggle to get more and more; others find joy in what they have, and most of all in Whom they serve.
William Henry Channing, a nineteenth-century clergyman, summed up his philosophy of life like this: "To live content with small means; to see elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common -- this is my symphony."
When we're walking with God and finding our sufficiency in Christ, contentment is the melody of the soul. All of life is a symphony. We may not have the latest sound system in our living room, but we have a choir of songbirds in the nearby park -- and they sing for free!
As the Bible says, "Godliness with contentment is great gain" (1 Timothy 6:6).
Contentment ... is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding.
Arthur Pink |
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