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“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”
― Oprah Winfrey
Contentment is a great virtue one must possess because you will always enjoy life more especially being happy with yourself. Everyone has been provided with something great in them which is a gift deposited in us by God. When we learn to make use of it and allow it work for us without being jealous of another person, it will surely be a success to us.
The Bible says "contentment is a great gain." We would always have enough when we learn to appreciate the little we have.
Many people you see out there wanting to get rich at all cost, not minding what it would cost their lives, is because they lack contentment and they never show gratitude over the things they have in their stock. They forgot that we are all different but unique and there is time and season for everything on earth.
The most happiest person is the one who is contented with what he or she has, believing that he would have more when he keeps thanking God for the ones he has presently. Our God is merciful and compassionate to listen to our gratitude and would want to keep doing more because He knows what we need at the exact time.
When you start running ahead of your destiny and chasing after things not worth it, you will end up in the grave at an early age. When we start to manage what we have and even expanding what we have at hand little by little, just as the adage says that a little drop of water makes an ocean, we would have in excess and that is only if our patience is activated.
There is no reward or gain for someone who isn´t contented but danger and doom await such individual. There is no joy when you keep looking at others´ achievement and seeing yourself less than them but to be happy and stay within your limit.
When you lack contentment, it makes you do the wrong thing and at the end, you regret your action.
When you lack contentment, you develop hatred for another person and block your good relationship with them.
When you lack contentment, it leads to corruption.
When you lack contentment, you engage in internet fraud.
All these vices do not last but taking you gradually to destruction. You must learn to appreciate what you have and be contented because there is much gain in it.
Thanks for reading
A very vital key in life we fail to recognise or we do but not ready to accept it
You are right. Until we are ready to accept it, we will always live in regret.
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I agree with your point, but this isn't a correct quote. 1 Timothy 6:6 says, "But godliness with contentment is great gain." (ESV) Meaning that godliness is the gain, not the contentment. Contentment is the fruit of faith, knowing that, as you said, God will provide what we need at exactly the right time. So the gain here isn't material (though it can be), the gain is the godliness itself - the state of being closer to and more like our Creator.
Bit of a side note -- I don't think it would be a stretch to think of godliness here as love because, "The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love." - 1 John 4:8 (LEB), and "And now these three things remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love." - 1 Corinthians 13:13 (LEB).
I like this way of thinking. Lack of contentment and envy are closely entwined, envy leads to hatred (or in some ways is hatred), and you can't be in close relationship with God or with others when you have hatred for another. This also limits your ability to treat yourself the way you ought to, because I don't think you can feel any better about yourself than you do about anyone else in your life.
Great read. I'll be following!