As we travel, we understand the horizon is always moving. The same is true in our desperate search for peace. In this program, Chip tells us peace is not a thing to be achieved, but a secret to be discovered.
Introduction: What would it take for you to be content?
Content: Happy enough with what one has or is; not desiring something more or different; satisfied. -Webster’s Dictionary
The Problem: The horizon is always moving.
Two Historical Solutions:
- Conquer, achieve, and acquire until satisfied.
- Desire less and less until it doesn’t matter.
The Question: How can we be satisfied…today?
- The Answer: Philippians 4:10-13
- The Occasion: A “Thank You” Note -Philippians 4:10-13
- The Conclusion: Contentment is not a thing to be achieved, but a secret to be discovered.
- How?
Four Principles – Four Practices:
Principle #1 - Our contentment is not dependent on our circumstances.
- Practice = BE THANKFUL/GRATEFUL -Philippians 4:10
Principle #2 - Contentment is an attitude we learn not a thing we achieve.
- Practice = BE TEACHABLE -Philippians 4:11
Principle #3 - Prosperity does not have the power to give us contentment; nor poverty the power to take it away.
- Practice = BE FLEXIBLE / CHANGEABLE -Philippians 4:12
Principle #4 - Only Christ has the power to give us a contentment that transcends all life’s variables.
- Practice = BE CONTENT / TRUSTING -Philippians 4:13
Conclusion: Contentment is not passive acceptance of the status quo, but the positive assurance that God has supplied one’s needs, and the consequent release from unnecessary desires.
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