Contentment

Happy Thanksgiving Week! Our devotional reading comes from Hebrews 13:5-6, and it builds off of yesterday's sermon. The author of Hebrews writes,

Keep your life free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, 'I will never leave you nor forsake you.' So we can confidently say, 'The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?'

Notice the argumentation here. The author says we ought to keep our life free from the love of money and be content with what we have...for...He has said.

In other words, the basis for not loving money and being content is built upon the foundation of the next verse - a promise of God. "I will never leave you nor forsake you."

So because God will never leave us nor forsake us, and "we have all things in Him who has all things" (Burroughs), we can be content with God as our portion.

Furthermore, because God will never leave us or forsake us, we can say, the Lord is my helper, I will not fear.

This Thanksgiving week, remember that you can be content and grateful because God is with you. He will never abandon you. He will be your help. And when God is our portion, we indeed have all things.

Let us worship Him with thankfulness in our hearts.

~ In Christ,
Pastor Alexander