“Contentment is a funny word”

I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength. Philippians 4:12-13.

To be content is the state of being happy and satisfied so says the dictionary. In my researching I found a statement that said ‘contentment is a gift from God and grows out of having His perspective on life’. This becomes difficult when we don’t understand that all that we have belongs to God. We look at the things that we have and believe that it all is because of me and without it I am no longer able to function. When I am stuck on the belief that what I have is because of ‘my job’ or what others have given to me I will have a problem functioning without it. Paul tells us that it is Christ who enables the contentment regardless of the current situation in life. We must realize that our content- ment should not be in who is in our life, the items we have purchased, or the job position that we feel we have earned but that contentment comes from God. Evaluate your life today, ask yourself what would happen if my life changed right now how would I respond. Maybe you say that ‘but you don’t know how bad my situation is right now’-maybe not but somebody else is worse off than you are.

Daily prayer agreement for: Pastor Robinson, First fami- ly, BCOG-ATL family, BCOG, Inc., the nation, souls/ reaching the un-churched (salvation), BCOG church mort- gage burning, unity, obedience.