Today’s Devotion
Topic: Be Content With What You Have
Text: Hebrews 13: 5- 6
5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”6 So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?” Amen
Man measures the success of life by the abundance of resource or wealth a person has. This indicator places an unnecessary pressure on all of us to try and attain far more than we actually require. In the process, some resort to very foul means to “beat the system and be on top of the game”.
The amazing truth is, those who have attained an awful lot of resources may still covet the little that others have and employ dubious means to out-smart them for more.
King David had several wives and the entire population of unmarried women in Israel at his disposal, yet desired Uriah’s wife, Bathsheba and killed him to have her. David was not content with his position as a king, he wanted a poor soldier’s wife too. This is quite the case today.
We can all however learn from Joseph. In Portiphar’s house, he refused the sexual offers by ‘Mrs. Portiphar’. Definitely there might have been some temporary benefits if he had consented to the “sugar mummy’s” offer but Joseph knew very well that such offers had eternal consequences. He would rather be content with what His master had wilfully entrusted in his care.
Apostle Philip asked Jesus to “Show us the Father and that will be enough for us” (John 14:8). Surely if we have a great understanding of who God is, and how He can supply all our needs according to His riches in glory, we will neither fret nor worry about what we have or do not have. Instead, we will be grateful for what we have and hopeful for what He’s yet to give.
Godliness with contentment is great gain. Beloved, let us be satisfied with the daily provisions of God. Discontentment only breeds ungodly competition, greed and bitterness even among members of the same household. Begin to pray now! Pray for more of God and less of this world. For “the world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever” (1 John 2: 17). Kindly click, watch and be blessed: https://youtu.be/_KIF01Ix6Lw
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