I was very glad in the Lord because now at last you have shown concern for me again. (Of course you were always concerned but had no way to show it.) I’m not saying this because I need anything, for I have learned how to be content in any circumstance. I know the experience of being in need and of having more than enough; I have learned the secret to being content in any and every circumstance, whether full or hungry or whether having plenty or being poor. I can endure all these things through the power of the one who gives me strength. Still, you have done well to share my distress. You Philippians know from the time of my first mission work in Macedonia how no church shared in supporting my ministry except you. (Philippians 4:10-15, CEB)
Are we content?
Or do we need something new?
As I write this devotion, I am about to pay off a vehicle loan and I am now looking again at getting a Can Am Spyder. Pay off one thing and get another loan for something else. Why? Why can I not be content to have no payments for at least a moment?
We always seem to want something we do not have. Something bigger, or better.
Paul in this letter to the Philippians is telling them that he has discovered the secret to happiness. To be content. Whether he wants something or has everything he needs. He can make it because God’s love will always see him through.
So be content and don’t go looking for something else.
Loving People. Loving God.
P.S. To be clear I have looked off and on for the Spyder and have even included pictures of ones in devotions in the past, that isn’t anything new and will eventually happen, I was just struck by how I seem uncontent with having extra money to save…
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