The Secret Of Contentment

Philippians 4:12-13  I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.  I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

In times of plenty trouble is rare. We may prosper, but there’s danger of getting our eyes off Jesus. In times of plenty souls are saved and God blesses.

In times of poverty we discipline ourselves to tighten our belts. We may have pity parties and whine.

The Apostle Paul knew the secret of contentment in plenty or poverty. Joy doesn’t lie in our circumstances, it is wholly of God in Jesus our Lord.

“I can do all things through Christ which strengthene th me.”

A Holy Calling

2 Timothy 1:9  Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

Before the world was created -- before Adam was formed --- before you and I were conceived, God called us with a holy calling. His purpose and grace was extended to us through Christ Jesus.

It was His grace that loved us, sought us, called us, saved us, keeps us and will take us home to Heaven. Thank you, Lord  Jesus for suffering on the cross for my salvation.

A look of love was on His face, and thorns were on His head.
Blood was on His scarlet robe; it was stand a crimson red.
Though His eyes were on the crowd that day, He looked ahead in time.
For when He was on the cross, I was on His mind.

For He knew me, yet He loved me, He whose glory makes the heavens shine.
I’m so unworthy of such mercy. When He was on the cross, I was on His mind.
---  Ronald Michael Payne and Ronnie Hinson

Life Is Hard, But God Is Good

Those who fear God revere and adore and worship and honor and respect His Deity, His Holiness, and His Almighty Power and Wisdom. If you feel this way when you address your Lord and Savior, He gives you a guardian angel.

Psalm 34:7-8 The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

We serve an awesome God. Someone has said, “Life is hard, but God is good.” Yes, God is extremely good to those who trust Him and reverently fear Him. Do you want blessings. “Trust and see that the Lord is good.”

May We Never Forget

May we, the redeemed of Christ,  never forget our sinful condition when Jesus saved us – when He gave us eternal life.

Romans 6:22-23  But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

May we never forget His compassion, His  suffering  on the cruel cross of Calvary.

His mission can be summed up in one word: Love. .

Regardless of what you do with Jesus today, you should never forget what He did for you on the cross.