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Contentment In All Things

Have you ever been to the beach and stood on the wet sand? If you stand there long enough the waves will wash the sand from around your feet. You start to sink. You feel unstable, and before long you have to move or you would fall over. Sometimes life is like that, full of so many uncertainties.

But God is rock-solid ground you can build on. We don’t have to worry that life will wash things away and topple us over. God wants us to find strength in Him, that contentment, that deep knowing that He is in control of all things.

We read in Isaiah 26:3, ‘You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on You!’

It’s not just any peace that is promised to us. It is perfect peace. We live inside God’s amazing and perfect care. As FB Meyer puts it, ‘Our trust should be permanent as His love is forever.

We can be content knowing that God is true, and just and loving. God does not make mistakes. The Apostle Paul learned to be content in all circumstances, through prayer, seeking God at all times. It is something God wants us to do. Reading His Word every day, putting it into our hearts, believing it to be absolutely true, praying to Him, declaring our every hurt and joy. Psalm 16:8 says: ‘I know the Lord is always with me. I will not be shaken, for He is right beside me.’

We can rest in perfect peace, content because we know that He is always there.

Written by CHRIS PARFOOT