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Message Text: Luke 12:13–21 (NLT)
We are bombarded with messages…
- If you had a little bit more, you’d be content
- If you had this new ”thing” you’d be satisfied
- If you had a bigger house or more fashionable clothes, you’d be happy
Adam Hamilton calls this the RHS (Restless Heart Syndrome):
“We are never satisfied, always searching for something more, something better, something bigger, something that satisfies.”Contentment is a condition of the heart and soul!
11Actually, I don’t have a sense of needing anything personally. I’ve learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances.
12I’m just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I’ve found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty.
Philippians 4:11-12 (MSG) 16Be cheerful no matter what; 17pray all the time; 18thank God no matter what happens. This is the way God wants you who belong to Christ Jesus to live. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (MSG)
God made us to be content with some things and not to be content with others.We are made to be content with what we have, and not content with the injustice in the lives of others. The problem is that we get these confused. We become content or complacent with the needs of people around us because we aren’t content with what we have.
Contentment is a life choice. Choosing Contentment means:
- that we look to God as the source of all we have and give thanks for what we have been given.
- we ask God to give us the right perspective on money and possessions and to change our hearts each day.
- we lead a simpler life, wasting less, conserving more, managing well.
- we say yes to the right things, and no to the unnecessary, and that we grow closer to God to know the difference.
- we live generously for the sake of others in need.
Prayer of ContentmentLord, help me be grateful for what I have, to remember that I don’t need most of what I want, and that joy is found in simplicity and generosity. AMEN
This sermon series is based on the book Enough: Discovering Joy through Simplicity and Generosity by Adam Hamilton
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