Philippians 4:11-12 (AMP) The Secret of being content
11 ...I have learned how to be content (satisfied to the point where I am not disturbed or disquieted) in whatever state I am.
12 I know how to be abased and live humbly in straitened circumstances, and I know also how to enjoy plenty and live in abundance. I have learned in any and all circumstances the secret of facing every situation, whether well-fed or going hungry, having a sufficiency and enough to spare or going without and being in want.
[I was thinking of being content when a truck passed me with this bumper sticker “No Sniveling” – Jim]
Dictionary (D)
snivel:
a weak, whining, or pretended weeping; a hypocritical show of feeling: a sentimental snivel.
[I wish I could say my thoughts were always happy but seconds before the truck passed me I was mad because so many drivers speed along the road endangering bike riders and pedestrians – then I saw the bumper sticker]
August 20th Completeness (Ozzy)
"And I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28
Whenever anything begins to disintegrate your life with Jesus Christ, turn to Him at once and ask Him to establish rest. Never allow anything to remain which is making the dis-peace. Take every element of disintegration as something to wrestle against, and not to suffer. Say - Lord, prove Thy consciousness in me, and self-consciousness will go and He will be all in all. Beware of allowing self-consciousness to continue because by slow degrees it will awaken self-pity, and self-pity is Satanic. Well, I am not understood; this is a thing they ought to apologize for; that is a point I really must have cleared up. Leave others alone and ask the Lord to give you Christ-consciousness, and He will poise you until the completeness is absolute. [emphasis mine]
[This is the secret of being content!]
References:
Jim Hughes (JPH) — Copyright © 2011 The Joyful Heart http://thejoyfulheart2011.blogspot.com/
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