contentment

"For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either. If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content." (1 Timothy 6:7-8)

Contentment is a choice, not a feeling.

"Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is life indeed.

O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly and empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called "knowledge" - which some have professed and thus gone astray from the faith. Grace be with you." (1 Timothy 6:18-21)

discontentment in the fleeting is a burden we choose to carry - to seek it is our greatest empty promise. To know discontentment is to know contentment and we ought to choose satisfaction which dwells within us. When we do this, our words, our actions, our thoughts and our emotions will automatically take hold of the eternal life to which we were called.