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No, Thanks!
Please buy our stuff!
A catalog arrived in our mailbox, featuring furniture, dishes, flatware, decorative items for the home, etc.
The best words I can think of to describe this merchandise are gaudy and pricey.
Reminds me of a story my dad told. After a cowboy visited Neiman-Marcus department store in downtown Dallas he remarked, “I never knew there were so many things I don’t need.”
The cure for discontent
I’m impressed with these passages from the apostle Paul:
“. . . I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:11-13).
“But godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content” (1 Timothy 6:6-8).
Developing a satisfied soul
Does wanting more and more make us happier and happier?
Paul said, “I have learned to be content . . . .”
It’s something we must learn.
There was nothing in that catalog I wanted.
But there is something you and I would do well to want.
Contentment.
Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
