Contentment will make a pauper act like a prince.
Contentment means a feeling of calm satisfaction. One way of achieving satisfaction in life is to separate your needs from wants. As we have been taught human wants are insatiable. ‘Contentment is not about getting what you want but the ability to enjoy what you have got.’ Be content with the person you are and seek ways to develop yourself. You are not in competition with anybody but yourself. Get ahead of yourself, and stop worrying about what others are thinking about you or want you to be. You were not created to be like everybody!
As long as you’re not contented with what and who you are, you cannot make any meaningful progress in life. It takes a man that’s peacefully happy and satisfied with life to achieve his purpose of creation. If you think the only way you can be satisfied is to have more money, why don’t you set a budget and start living within your means so that you can save more money? Anyway, money doesn’t guarantee true satisfaction, if not only the rich would have been so fulfilled, but that’s not the case, because the rich also cry. Contentment is not rooted in possessing or pleasure. Contentment comes from knowing and accepting who and what you are. It’s an inside job. Being yourself is the best form of contentment!
There was this dark and attractive lady called Jane, who thought she wasn’t pretty enough to attract a man’s hand in marriage and decided to bleach her skin. Although, she succeeded in lightening her skin, what she did not realize was that in the process of turning herself to another person, she pushed the only man that wanted to marry her away. After some time, Alex, Jane’s former neighbour and childhood friend returned from his studies oversees. He rushed to Jane’s house to profess his love for her all these years and propose marriage to her, but he met a ‘white Jane’ instead of the dark and lovely lady he was in love with. That was the end of the beginning of that affair.
An unknown writer stated “The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right.”
Don’t mess up with the special gift called life!
How do we achieve contentment? According to Bibletalk with Jeff Asher, ’The Apostle Paul said, “I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content” (Philippians 4:11). It is obvious then that we do not just wake up one morning and realize we are content. It is a state of mind that we must acquire through the discipline of the word of God.’
Learn how to be content with what you have even as you aspire to achieve more.
