Christian Contentment
Anita and I were chatting today about life in that it feels to me I'm just floating through it. I don't have definite plans or goals.
This evening I decided to listen to the message broadcasted on Febuary 14th at TruthForLife and by odd coincidence it addressed this. Alistair Begg was talking about Christian contentment.
In Phillipians 4:13 Paul writes, "I can do everything through him who gives me strength." [niv] I have usually intepreted this to refer to accomplishing something. But Alistair's interpretation reset me to see it's possible that the Lord will give me strength to deal with hardship and failure. There's more observations about this text and so I'll leave it to you to listen for yourself.
There's a couple more quotes I'd like to share and which I think we should hold onto. One is by Alistair himself, "Christian contentment is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be entirely at His disposal." See Anita's post about being the Lord's possession. The other is by Murray McShane, "It has always been my ambition to have no plans with regards to myself."
Well then. May God be praised.
This evening I decided to listen to the message broadcasted on Febuary 14th at TruthForLife and by odd coincidence it addressed this. Alistair Begg was talking about Christian contentment.
In Phillipians 4:13 Paul writes, "I can do everything through him who gives me strength." [niv] I have usually intepreted this to refer to accomplishing something. But Alistair's interpretation reset me to see it's possible that the Lord will give me strength to deal with hardship and failure. There's more observations about this text and so I'll leave it to you to listen for yourself.
There's a couple more quotes I'd like to share and which I think we should hold onto. One is by Alistair himself, "Christian contentment is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be entirely at His disposal." See Anita's post about being the Lord's possession. The other is by Murray McShane, "It has always been my ambition to have no plans with regards to myself."
Well then. May God be praised.
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