Timeless Wisdom: Contentment
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Introduction
Introduction
We live in a culture that isnt satified, we are alwasy desiring but never satified and if we are satified we satified by the wrong things?
You desire for a new pair of shoe and after 2 weeks you get dissatified with it.
you desire for new lothing then 2 month after a new trend comes on tiktok and you want to change your outfits.
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Transition
What do we do when a culture is so dissatfied even in the richest time in history, king solomon would dream to experience what we have but were still disstaified.
The New International Version Chapter 30
The leech has two daughters.
‘Give! Give!’ they cry.
“There are three things that are never satisfied,
four that never say, ‘Enough!’:
16 the grave, the barren womb,
land, which is never satisfied with water,
and fire, which never says, ‘Enough!
Desiring isnt the problem but its never being satified?
The New Bible Dictionary, Third Edition Contentment
It is not a passive acceptance of the status quo, but the positive assurance that God has supplied one’s needs, and the consequent release from unnecessary desire.
Why is contentment Better?
Why is contentment Better?
The New International Version Chapter 23
Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
do not trust your own cleverness.
5 Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone,
for they will surely sprout wings
and fly off to the sky like an eagle.
contentment is better because you wont lose time
contentmnet is better because wont be filled with jealousy and envy
contentment is better becasue you wont determine your value by what you have but whos your are
contentmnet is better becuase you wont be slave of money but rather generous
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transition
If content is so good why doesnt our culture choice it?
What are the ememys of contentment?
What are the ememys of contentment?
Envy
The New International Version (Chapter 14)
A heart at peace gives life to the body,but envy rots the bones.
The New Bible Dictionary, Third Edition (Envy)
Jealousy makes us fear to lose what we possess; envy creates sorrow that others have what we have not
comparision
My mother use to say dont always look up but look down?
Not knowing jesus