Biblical Contentment: Part Four

What does the Bible have to say about CONTENTMENT?

First, the Bible teaches that it is a way of life that must be learned.
• Look at Philippians 4:11-12.
• As Swindoll says, “It's not a gift from heaven”.

Second, you don’t need money to be content.

“it means to be free from inner turmoil, satisfied with one’s material and financial state, and in posession of a sense of peace regardless of one’s circumstances or feelings.”

Thirdly, the Bible says that contentment isn’t in the good life, the fast life or even the simple life.. Contentment lies not in what is yours, but in whose you are.”

Fourthly, Biblical contentment avoids:

• the desire for things more than God
• the desire for pleasure more than godliness
• the longing for more things than for Him who is to be all in all
• the desire for what others have when they have more or better things or situations than we have
• and the constant thoughts about things over the spiritual world

Each of these is a warning of a spiritual ill health called DISCONTENTMENT.