Matthew 6:25
"That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life whether you have enough food and drink, or enough cloth to wear isn't life more than food, and your body more than clothing?"
IT WAS ON A TRIP into a Kenya tribal area to set up an optimetric clinic that Dr. Rob Henslick heard his driver say as they glanced out the window, "These people are wealthy," They were driving in Rift Valley, one of the most fertile areas of Kenya. At first Rob though, He's not seeing what I've just seen--small, very humble mud houses covered with cow dung to keep the mosquitoes out, women carrying water from the river, red, dusty, roads, and barefooted kids playing in the street.
"How is it you say they are wealthy?" Dr. Rob asked. His driver said "well, they have cow, a herd of goats and a farm and they can live off the land. These people are considered wealthy in Kenya." And he was right. Wealthy is relative.
Contentment and wealthy are not corollary especially they don't run side by side. If they did, those who are materially rich would be content. Neither is it true that those who have barely enough to buy rice or bread would be happy. Contentment has far more to do with your attitude than your resources.
When soldiers approached Jesus, thinking that He would side with them against the government who paid them poorly, He told them, "Don't extort money and don't accuse people falsely be Content with your pay" (Luke 3:14). Paul, whose life was difficult, wrote to the Philippians and said that he had learned to be content in any and every situation.
Contentment doesn't depend on what you have as much as what you really are and what you have within. The great treasures that make for contentment are those of soul, which come by knowing Jesus Christ.
"That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life whether you have enough food and drink, or enough cloth to wear isn't life more than food, and your body more than clothing?"
IT WAS ON A TRIP into a Kenya tribal area to set up an optimetric clinic that Dr. Rob Henslick heard his driver say as they glanced out the window, "These people are wealthy," They were driving in Rift Valley, one of the most fertile areas of Kenya. At first Rob though, He's not seeing what I've just seen--small, very humble mud houses covered with cow dung to keep the mosquitoes out, women carrying water from the river, red, dusty, roads, and barefooted kids playing in the street.
"How is it you say they are wealthy?" Dr. Rob asked. His driver said "well, they have cow, a herd of goats and a farm and they can live off the land. These people are considered wealthy in Kenya." And he was right. Wealthy is relative.
Contentment and wealthy are not corollary especially they don't run side by side. If they did, those who are materially rich would be content. Neither is it true that those who have barely enough to buy rice or bread would be happy. Contentment has far more to do with your attitude than your resources.
When soldiers approached Jesus, thinking that He would side with them against the government who paid them poorly, He told them, "Don't extort money and don't accuse people falsely be Content with your pay" (Luke 3:14). Paul, whose life was difficult, wrote to the Philippians and said that he had learned to be content in any and every situation.
Contentment doesn't depend on what you have as much as what you really are and what you have within. The great treasures that make for contentment are those of soul, which come by knowing Jesus Christ.
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