Being Content

And a very good morning to you!

It is Monday morning, 17th January, the year 2022 and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

“Now godliness with contentment is great gain.”

1 Timothy 6:6

Then we go to Philippians 4:11, the Apostle Paul says:

“Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.”

That was a man who had been to the two extremes of life. I looked up the Oxford Dictionary to find out the definition of the word, contentment. It means: “A state of peaceful happiness or satisfaction.”

Now, King David - he had everything. He had money and he was a very, very handsome man. He could do whatever he wanted. He had the most beautiful women in the world, he had fame and power but then he said in Psalm 27:4:

“One thing I have desired of the Lord,
That will I seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the Lord
All the days of my life,
To behold the beauty of the Lord,…”

How are you feeling today, are you content with your lot in life?

I remember the story of a little boy who was always complaining to his mom that he wanted another new pair of shoes until he was walking down the street with his mom one day and he saw another little boy, being wheeled up the street in a pram because he didn’t have any feet.

You and I need to be content and we need to be satisfied with what God has given us. Today I walked out of my house and Jill has got a little window-box made out of brick and cement. She had the most beautiful display of pansies, please look at the picture... Then we had that terrible hailstorm and it wiped out every single flower that she had in the whole garden.

But I walked out this morning and I looked at this little window-box and growing out of the wall, out of the side of the window-box, that’s right the brick and the cement was the most beautiful, content, happy, smiling pansy! And the Lord just said to me, in my heart, “You see Angus, that little Pansy is so content.”

Well, the wisest man that ever lived, Solomon, he said:

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter, and that is:
“Fear God and keep His commandments,
For this is man’s all.”

Ecclesiastes 12:13

Have a good day,
God bless you and goodbye.