BE CONTENT WITH WHAT YOU HAVE!!

"I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content." Philippians 4:11. My friend, are you content with what you have? With what the Lord made you? With your look? With being single? With your wife or husband? With your children, or without children? With your Job? With your Church or Pastor? With your house? Well, are you? Do you know "It is better to desire the things WE HAVE, than TO HAVE the things we desire"! King Solomon said " Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from pleasure, for my heart rejoiced in all my labor; and this was my reward from all my labor. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labor in which I had toiled; and indeed all was Vanity and grasping for the wind. There was no profit under the sun". Ecclesiastes 2:1-11. Solomon was arguably the richest man that ever lived and he indulged every desire, whim and inclination he had- when all was said and done he was miserable- his life was empty and his spirit was vexed. I have heard a story of a discontent farmer who was griping about the lake on his property always needing to be stocked and managed.. And those fat cows lumbered through his pasture. All the fencing and feeding- WHAT A HEADACHE!. He called a Realtor and made plans to list the farm. A few days later the Realtor called and wanting his approval for the advertisement she intended to put on News Paper. She read the Ad to the farmer "A lovely farm in an ideal location- quiet and peaceful, contoured with rolling hills, carpeted with soft meadows, nourished by a fresh lake, and well-bread livestock". After reading this two times to the farmer, the farmer said "I've changed my mind, I am not going to sell it- I've been looking for a place like that all my life". Did you get it Buddy. It's all your perspective. BE CONTENT, Y'ALL HEAR ME!