Finding contentment

Will i am inspired me with his rendition of the Barrack Obama speech Yes We Can. The speech moved the nation with a promise to be great again. However, in my daily reflection God impressed upon me that the problem that most of us face is not that fact that we cannot have what we NEED. Rather, the problem stems from the fact that we cannot afford the things that we WANT.

Most of the text that I've read about being content quotes 1 Timothy 6:10. It says there that,



"For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains."

For some strange reason, this verse is the most quoted yet misunderstood. It does not say that money is bad nor that it say that you should not desire to have money. What it says is that you can find contentment not in great wealth but in few wants.

1 Timothy 6:6-9 says,

But if we have food and shelter, we will be satisfied with that. Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

In verse 11 it continues,

But you, as a person dedicated to God, keep away from all that. Instead pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, endurance, and gentleness.

A christian magazine suggested that the next time we ask for God's abundant blessings in our lives, why don't we ask for contentment instead? Can we do that? As will i am would say, Yes we can. By God's grace we can.