Contentment

11/27/12 Contentment! What a precious thing to have. Yet few seem content. Our God has given His all and since He gave His Son then surely there isn’t any blessing that He will withhold from us. Rom.8:32. This being true then why aren’t more people content? I believe it is a poor theology. We do not think about God as we ought. While I don’t have the space to give a theology lesson I want to give you something that I ran across a few years ago. It is a list of some sound theological principles from Martin L. Jones on how to be content. Read them and be content. They are based on Phil.4:11, “I have learned in whatever state I am to be content.” “1. Conditions are always changing; therefore I must obviously not be dependent upon conditions. 2. What matters supremely is my soul and my relationship to God. 3. God is concerned about me as my Father, and nothing happens to me apart from God. Even the very hairs of my head are numbered. I must never forget that. 4. God's will and God's ways are a great mystery, but I know that whatever He wills or permits is of necessity for my good. 5. Every situation in life is the unfolding of some manifestation of God's love and goodness. Therefore my business is to look for this peculiar manifestation of God's goodness and kindness and to be prepared for surprises and blessings because His ways are not my ways, neither His thoughts my thoughts. 6. I must regard circumstances and conditions, not in and of themselves therefore but as a part of God's dealings with me in the work of perfecting my soul and bringing me to final perfection. 7. Whatever my circumstances may be at this present moment they are only temporary, they are only passing, and they can never rob me of the joy and the glory that ultimately await me with Christ.”