Thursday June 27th, 2024
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6 Now godliness with contentment is great gain.
7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
8 And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.
9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.
10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
11 But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness.
One value lacking in many 21st Century Christians is contentment, and this affects godliness as well.
« A godly life brings huge profits to people who are content with what they have »
Unfortunately, many Christians these days are living in a constant state of discontent.
Ecclesiastes 5:10-12 says no amount of money can satisfy those who love riches.
Moreover, the more material things you acquire, the more responsibility you have to maintain them.
Many rich people cannot sleep well because they are too conscious of those who might steal from them.
I am sure you can point to numerous people who are enriching themselves illegitimately, acquiring ill-gotten wealth.
There are people who loot the treasury of their countries, carting away billions into foreign bank accounts.
What good have these billions done to their physical bodies, not to talk of their souls?
It is pure vexation of the spirit, according to King Solomon in Ecclesiastes 1:14.
However, a laborer who has contentment always has a good appetite to eat the modest food available and sleeps like a baby after the day’s work, whereas the rich without contentment will not sleep – thinking of how to accumulate more riches and what to do to preserve it.
This is why many of such people are chronically stingy – suspecting everyone around them to be a cheat.
A rich man in a city in Nigeria wanted to give me all his houses so that I would pray for him to be able to sleep. I told him to keep his houses because my sleep is more important to me than a thousand houses that were built with ill-gotten wealth.
Do you want to enjoy life in abundance?
Seek the Lord today. He said
« I came that they may have life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows] »
- A person who is content is the richest fellow in the whole world.
You can become content if you are godly.
- To be godly is to be compliant with the dictates of the unchanging word of God.
It is good to be ambitious, to want bigger and better things for yourself.
However, be careful not to desire material prosperity at the expense of your spiritual growth.
Prayer focus – Father, please give me godliness and its twin – contentment, in the mighty name of Jesus
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Edited by Naomie Joseph
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