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Last Updated on : Saturday, October 11, 2014

 

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Chapter 5:
Contentment


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THE Scriptures exhort us not to grow discontented with our daily routine but to exalt our most common-place duties to the position of God-given tasks, and to show fidelity and diligence in their performance, which is to be "from the heart." The everyday things of life give more scope for developing character and bringing up the quality of obedience to Christ's commands than we are sometimes disposed to think. When we ponder the training of the worthiest of God's children we perceive that few, if any, were relieved of the common daily routine.

"I have learned," said Paul "in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content." And his further comment for our instruction is: "Godliness with contentment is great gain." To learn and remember this will counteract our natural tendency to grumble and go about with sour looks at what we may be inclined to regard as weary drudgery and a hard lot, quite out of harmony with the position of a saint.

Let us remember that our divinely imposed obligations in our respective relationships, cannot be cancelled by distributing thousands of pamphlets, by holding hundreds of arguments with the stranger, or by reading whole books of the Bible at a sitting.-C.H. Jannaway

True happiness consists not in the possession of material wealth, but in acquiring a fulness of spiritual grace, which yields comfort to us, and a beneficial influence to all with whom we come in contact.

 

 

 


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