Are You Content?
4/9/25 12:20 PM
Solitary Man
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Are you content? Are you satisfied with what I have provided you? Are you at rest at this moment, regardless of your current circumstance? Or are you troubled? Do you feel cheated? Do you question what I have brought into your life?
Have you not read in my word that godliness with contentment is great gain? How do you think the false prophets get a hold of your soul? Do they not speak on behalf of their master satan? Do they not always make you question if what you have received from heaven is enough?
And how do they do this? By making you believe that there is oh so much more for you out there, if only you would believe! Instead of making you question God, they make you question yourself. If only you had more faith, they say, you could have all these things, ‘in Christ’! If only you would confess and declare and claim, all these carnal desires of your heart would be yours, ‘in Christ’!
Do you now see how the enemy works? How they continually appeal to the flesh, all the while masquerading their doctrines of men and love of money as something that the word teaches? How they ignore the plain and simple meaning of the scripture, not letting you see the words that would lead you into my will? Words that would bring true joy and peace into your life. Instead, all they do is stir up fleshly lusts by the lying promises that spew forth from filthy lips.
How is it in your western lands of plenty, that you have been so deceived? How is it that you embrace the same values as the heathen? Do you think that you must have health and wealth before you can achieve contentment in me? Do you really think your life consists of the abundance of your possessions? If that is true, then how can anyone find true joy in the rest of the world? In most places, my children thank me for a piece of bread, or a drink of water. In the west, my children cry and pout and demand that I fulfill every whim of their unsanctified heart.
I have been patient with you for far longer than you realize. But even my patience with my children has its limits, as my word clearly shows. Your ingratitude has kindled my anger. Your lack of contentment in what I have given you shall not be overlooked forever.
Yet you all say: ‘Master, do you not care that our governments are corrupt? Master, can’t you see that we’re losing our freedoms? Lord, why don’t you stop the loss our economic prosperity? Jesus, why don’t you heal us when we pray?’
Do you think that I owe you all these things? Is your attitude one of entitlement? Are you so ungrateful over what I have done for you at the cross, that eternal life means little or nothing to you? Shall you never cease with your whining and complaining?
Have you not read what I did with my people in the wilderness? That after so great a deliverance, they accused me not once, not twice, but 10 times of not taking care of their needs? I vowed that none would enter the promised land, did I not? And I kept my word, did I not?
So why do you tempt me, as those in the wilderness tempted me? Did I not say that I have written all these things as examples for you? Have I not forewarned you what shall be your fate, if your hearts continue to go astray, even as their hearts continued to chase after their own lusts?
My children, do you think I do not hear your murmurings and complainings? Do I not know the thoughts of your hearts? So many of you feel so sorry for yourself. You wonder: ‘Why me? What did I do to deserve this?’ And all the while you forget that bondage out of which I have delivered you. You count it a small thing, the revelation of my salvation for you, the fact that I have called you, and chosen you to inherit my kingdom.
So for a little while, you are allotted a cup of distress. So for a short space of time, the cup of suffering must pass your lips. Is that enough to steal your contentment away? Shall a few years of trial be enough to rob you of the joy of your salvation? Why must you so focus on the wrong thing? Why do you refuse to die, so that I may live? On what basis do you think that I will judge? Is it not by how much you have died to self, and allowed me to live? Is it not by how willing you were in taking up your cross, regardless of what manner that cross turned out to be?
I say these things not to condemn you, but to help you. In the long run, correction is far sweeter nectar than encouragement. Would you rather not be made aware of what pleases me instead of always being told how wonderful you are? Have you not been called for this very purpose, to glorify me in all that you do?
You know that all things originate from within. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. If you are ungrateful in your heart, you shall only produce bitter fruit. Contentment is the fertilizer that nourishes the seed of the word that my Spirit has planted in your soul. Lack not in this vital ingredient, and good fruit shall you produce. Water that seed with humility and the fear of the Lord, and that is how you shall obtain that true 100 fold return. A harvest of righteousness, not unholy mammon. Learn to garden my way, and leave the way of Laodicea behind. Then, and only then, shall you experience the true riches of my kingdom.
Scripture References
Php_4:11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
1Ti_6:8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
Heb_13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
1Ti_6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
1Jn_2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1Pe_2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
2Pe 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
2Pe 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
Jud 1:8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
Luk_12:15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Heb 2:1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
Heb 2:2 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
Heb 2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
Num_14:22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
Heb 3:8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Heb 3:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Heb 3:10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
Heb 3:11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
Heb 3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Heb 3:13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Heb 3:14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
Heb 3:15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
Heb 3:16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
Heb 3:17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
Heb 3:18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
Heb 3:19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
Rom_15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
1Co_10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
Mat_25:34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
Mat_20:22 But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.
1Co_15:31 I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
Luk_9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
Luk_14:27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
Heb_12:11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
1Co_11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
1Co_7:32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
Mat_5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
1Co_6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Pro_23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
Mat_12:35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Mat_13:23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
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