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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[a] 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 acquiring more and more make us happier and happier? Paul said, “I have learned to be content . . . .” It’s something we must learn. There was not a thing in that catalog I wanted.
But there is something you and I would do well to want.
Contentment.
