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Monday, January 17, 2011
What Does It Mean To Be Content?
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Gregg Metcalf has served as the Teaching Pastor of Surprise Valley Baptist Church (Cedarville, CA) and the Mirror Lake Baptist Church (Federal Way, WA.) He graduated from Shasta Bible College in 1989. Gregg is married to Irene and the Lord has blessed them with four daughters and six grandchildren, with a great grandchild on the way. Gregg invites your comments and interaction concerning his posts and this blog! Gregg enjoys reading, boating, song-poem writing, and his family.
Thanks, Gregg! That is EXACTLY what I needed to hear/read today. I have the verse marked in my Bible, and like how you've translated it. It's definitely easier to understand. Happy Monday!
ReplyDeleteBurroughs helped me so much in this issue of contentment. I love this quote!
ReplyDeleteGood stuff Gregg. I remember God speaking to me years ago about how I listened to voices of discontentment when I was not content.
ReplyDeleteContentment sounds so pleasant...I'm a "I-can't-wait-til-such-and-such" type of person. I need to add contentment to my desire to be more joyful!
ReplyDeleteWonderful post Gregg, contentment for me is inner peace with the world.
ReplyDeleteYvonne.
As Christian contentment is a virtue, the opposite is a sin that can eat you alive! I love this Matthew Henry quote.
ReplyDeleteDiscontent is a sin that is its own punishment and makes men torment themselves; it makes the spirit sad, the body sick, and all the enjoyments sour; it is the heaviness of the heart and the rottenness of the bones. It is a sin that is its own parent. It arises not from the condition, but from the mind. As we find Paul contented in a prison, so Ahab discontent in a palace. - Matthew Henry