Category Archives: Contentment
What happens when you don’t get your cookies?
Let them give glory unto the Lord… – Isaiah 42:12, KJV We often make things more complicated than they really are. Take, for example, the idea of glorifying God. If you were to ask the average Christian what it means
How would you react if you didn’t eat for several days?
Thank [God] in everything [no matter what the circumstances may be, be thankful and give thanks], for this is the will of God for you [who are] in Christ Jesus [the Revealer and Mediator of that will]. – 1 Thessalonians
Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.
And the foremen said to them, The Lord look upon you and judge, because you have made us a rotten stench to be detested by Pharaoh and his servants and have put a sword in their hand to slay us.
Hey, keep those petty arguments amongst yourselves.
…And if the world [itself] is to be judged and ruled by you, are you unworthy and incompetent to try [such petty matters] of the smallest courts of justice? – 1 Corinthians 6:2, Amplified Bible (AMP) Christians are commanded to
What are you using as your measuring stick?
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. – 1 Corinthians 11:1, KJV It can be either very gratifying or very depressing when we compare ourselves to other people. If we are better off than the
What will you be striving to obtain in the New Year?
And He said to them, Guard yourselves and keep free from all covetousness (the immoderate desire for wealth, the greedy longing to have more); for a man’s life does not consist in and is not derived from possessing overflowing abundance or that which is over and
The world is filled with danger, struggle, and strife, but that’s a good thing…
…I will give you rest. – Matthew 11:28, KJV I like to hike in the mountains, but I don’t get to go hiking nearly as often as I’d like. Although I do enjoy the scenery and the exercise along the
Who is the object of your life?
…for He will save His people from their sins [that is, prevent them from failing and missing the true end and scope of life, which is God]. – Matthew 1:21, Amplified Bible (AMP) Remember, it’s not about you. We experience emotional
Stop jumping from oasis to oasis.
…Let not your heart be troubled… – John 14:27, KJV There are days when you just wake up jittery. The worries of the day pile on you the moment you awake, and from the get-go, you teeter-totter on the brink