Today’s Scripture Threshing for Sunday, March 10, 2019
Today’s Text: Philippians 4:10-20
Key Verse: Philippians 4:11 (ASV): ”Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content.”
It’s a second time God is bringing the issue of contentment to us. The last time, we are faced with the fact that contentment is not natural with man. The same way as malicious weeds grow so easily on our well trimmed lawn, so does discontent spirit flourish naturally with us. We are intuitively discontent and grow easily covetous. The manner in which we so easily forget God’s goodness and murmur at Him at any easy wind of change shows the seed of discontentment.
To be content, we learn from Apostle Paul today that, we need to learn. Like Paul did not know how to be content at one time, we all seem not to know how to be content right now.
This morning, God wants us to take a big break and search our innermost being. Have we truly learned in whatsoever state we are, to be content? If God is taking your through fire and trials to test your contentment; you’d not be passed to proceed out of that class until you’ve clearly demonstrated that you have learned and pass the contentment test.
Paul did not have it all easy, but they were part of the contentment class. All of us must go through the class and learn it. For Paul, the classroom requirement included the poor prison dungeon of Nero at Rome. It included his strange infirmities, and the prayer he prayed that God refused to answer.
God set Jesus on the cross, on a high hill of Calvary where everyone could see Him and probably say, that’s God’s own Son there! He set apostle Paul also as a case study so that we may learn today that contentment comes by learning. The one question you must ask yourself today is: I’m I a faithful student in God’s College of Contentment.
Quote for the Day: “We must deal carefully with the word contentment because there’s a safe sense of contentment and there is unsafe sense of it. For instance: it is self destructive not to be content with one's lot in life; while it is self defeating to be content with oneself.” (Simon Olatunji)
Prayer: Dear LORD, I thank you for not giving me up to my lustful desires which could draw my heart away from the satisfaction that’s found in You. Help me Lord to be content in You, and with what You have given me. Give me the grace not to be driven by what my flesh wants or what the world suggests; but by your word, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
With all my Love and Prayer,
Simon Wale Olatunji, PhD
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