Life Management for Busy Women by Elizabeth George

Author:Elizabeth George
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780736951289
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers

A Recipe for Contentment

Health enough to make work a pleasure;

Wealth enough to support your needs;

Strength enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;

Grace enough to confess your sins and overcome them;

Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished;

Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor;

Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;

Faith enough to make real the things of God;

Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.3

Contentment is not based on your present circumstances—As a Christian, you possess all the true riches of heaven—both here on earth and held in trust for you in heaven to come. You have the hope of eternal life, no matter what’s currently going on in your life. Life is filled with tribulation (John 16:33). But you can have peace of mind and complete contentment in the midst of your present circumstances. Why? Because…

Contentment is based on the person of God (Philippians 4:13,19)—As a popular song title reminds us about God, “All That I Need Is All That You Are.” In God, you have all that you need—both now and forever.

Assessing Your Contentment

Would those who know you best think of you as a contented woman? Would they say that your countenance radiates a spirit that’s undisturbed? A spirit that’s untroubled by the wants and needs of life? A spirit that’s pleased with what it does have as well as what it doesn’t have? Or are you someone who might be described as having a “murmuring spirit”? A spirit that’s rarely satisfied, rarely at rest, rarely content in the Lord and His provision?

Think about it. And be honest, because your approach to your financial life will be determined by your level of contentment—which is determined by your trust in God. To be content, you simply cannot be bothered by the things of this world. There just isn’t enough time or energy in a day for you to waste even a second or a thought—let alone your emotions—on even one discontented thought.

Meet Someone Who Was Truly Content

I want you to meet one of my favorite women in the Bible, and I can’t even tell you her name! We know her simply as “the Shunammite woman.” Look at her wonderful picture of contentment in 2 Kings 4:8-17. The Shunammite woman, a warm, caring, and generous person, was used by God to provide room and board for His prophet Elisha. She was married but had no children.

When Elisha asked this “great” woman (KJV) what he could do for her to repay her many kindnesses to him and his servant, the noble Shunammite woman answered with words to this effect, “Why, nothing! I’m perfectly content. Nothing about my life disturbs me. I live with my own people. What more could I possibly want or need?”

That’s it! That’s contentment. She got it, and I’m hoping you and I will too. As we set our hearts upon the goal to learn contentment in any and all circumstances, perhaps by God’s good grace, we will gain what a Puritan writer called “the rare jewel of Christian contentment.

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