Every Fall, the church has a series to help you evaluate how you are doing as a disciple.
Are you leading a quality life? How do you know if you are leading a life of value?
Picture a Venn diagram with the circles that intersect.
Contentment - A quality life is content.
Purpose - A quality life has meaning.
Relationships - A quality life has good relationships.
Contentment offers release from fear because you are content in all situations. Paul wrote about that:
Philippians 4:12 I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.
The one who is faithful will receive more. This is not the prosperity gospel. God is talking about spiritual rather than material riches.
Why do relationships break? We become hardened. We stop caring. We break it off with God; God does not become hardened to us. God is faithful.
In the Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13.3-23) the thorns of wealth, the worries of this life, choke the faith of those in the West. Contentment inoculates us against this.
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