How To Be Content

Hebrews 13:5

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you."

For those of us who are believers, God has promised to meet all our needs. Paul said, "My God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus." We just have to have faith that he will. The more faith that we have in this, the less we will feel that we need to depend on money.

But the more that we love money, the less we trust God. We start to look to money to meet all our needs instead of God. When we love money and depend on money too much, we are forgetting that it is GOD that supplies all of our needs and not our jobs or our bank account. "He owns that cattle on a thousand hills." He can provide for us and He will if we ask him to. As long as we will admit that we need him, he will provide for us. God "gives grace to the humble." Amen. :)

The key to not loving money is to "be content with what you have." The Bible also says, "Godliness with contentment is great gain." Why? Because if you can be content with where you are now, you will be a much happier person. You won't be always bitter over things you don't have. You will be thankful and feel grateful for your lot in life, whatever it is.

But when we start to get discontent, we start to look to money to take away our discontentment. But money cannot do that. We have to do that ourselves, and we have to pray that God can help us with that. Amen. :) We can start to think that this next thing that we buy will make us happy and content. But we if can't be content with little, we will also not be content with much.

If you can't be grateful for the things you already have, you won't be grateful for anything new that you might get either. Having more will not make you more content. The only way to find contentment is in changing your mind and the way you think. As Paul says, "Be transformed by the renewal of your mind." You have to change the way you think about things and money. You have to force yourself to be grateful for what you already have, rather than always wanting more. You have to see that it is all lies from Satan that tell you that the next thing you buy will make you happy. Things WON'T make you happy. You have to make yourself happy. You have to chose to be happy. If you aren't happy with what you have now, having more won't make you happy either. It might for a time, but it will be a short lived happiness.

So learn to be content with where you are in life. Don't always think the grass is greener on the other side. It's not. It's just your perception of it and you thinking that it is. But the reality is, no matter where we are in life we will have troubles and hardship. Nothing will make us perfectly happy no matter what. The sooner you can learn to accept that, the sooner you will be able to be content with where you currently are. Amen. God bless!

And here is the best sermon I have ever heard on the topic of contentment.  Check it out ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfsv4lp2cc4