With what should we be content? With barely enough food to survive and no roof over our head? With a mansion and a yacht? With what we need, with enough?
Enough is enough; it’s adequate, sufficient. We don’t need any more. We should be content with enough (Exodus 16:18; Proverbs 30:7-9; Mathew 6:11). “[G]odliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.” (1 Timothy 6:6-8).
Enough is what God has promised to give us (Luke 12:22-32). So we shouldn’t stress that we won’t have enough. Trust him who in telling us to “[k]eep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have”, assured us that “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” (Hebrews 13:5).
Yet it is true that God may have reason to let you, like his servant Paul before you, experience poverty – or wealth. Even in these situations, we should be content because we have something that eclipses our unhappy situation. We have spiritual riches, now and for all eternity. (Philippians 4:12-13) For “[w]ho shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? . . . No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.” (Romans 8:35, 37)
Enough is enough; it’s adequate, sufficient. We don’t need any more. We should be content with enough (Exodus 16:18; Proverbs 30:7-9; Mathew 6:11). “[G]odliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.” (1 Timothy 6:6-8).
Enough is what God has promised to give us (Luke 12:22-32). So we shouldn’t stress that we won’t have enough. Trust him who in telling us to “[k]eep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have”, assured us that “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” (Hebrews 13:5).
Yet it is true that God may have reason to let you, like his servant Paul before you, experience poverty – or wealth. Even in these situations, we should be content because we have something that eclipses our unhappy situation. We have spiritual riches, now and for all eternity. (Philippians 4:12-13) For “[w]ho shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? . . . No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.” (Romans 8:35, 37)
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