CHOOSING CONTENTMENT (12 OF 12)
by Bob Ingle
Scripture: Philippians 4:10-13
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Choosing Contentment (12 of 12)
Series: Philippians
Bob Ingle
Philippians 4:10-13
Open your Bible to Philippians 4. I'm not a medical doctor, but I'm pretty sure many of us suffer from a disease that's gone undetected and undiagnosed. You might not recognize the disease, but you might recognize some of its symptoms:
This disease has been known to cause a man to get into his very nice car that he's only had a year or two and think, ''I need to trade this in for a different one.''
This disease has been known to cause a woman to WALK into her closet (not look into) WALK into her closet where she is literally surrounded by walls of clothes and say, ''I don't have a thing to wear.''
This disease often causes teenagers to dislike other teenagers just because they have a newer cell phone, or a skinner body, or more snapchat followers, or cuter clothes, or more popular friends.
This devastating disease has driven many families to bankruptcy and escorted countless couples to divorce court. What disease am I referring to?
Yeah. It's the disease of discontentment. Discontentment is a major epidemic, but no one seems to be interested in a cure. We are the most privileged generation this nation has ever known, and yet we are the most discontent the world has ever seen.
Now to be fair, this disease of discontentment didn't start with us, or even with our country. You can trace it all the way back to the beginning of human history. Adam and Eve lived in an amazing paradise of perfection full of beauty and abundance. Quite literally, the whole world was theirs. But what happened? Satan convinced them that God was holding out on them and that they could have and should have MORE. They had everything, but they wanted MORE! Sounds familiar doesn't it?
Before my kids could communicate with words, Jana taught them to communicate with some basic sign language. I remember one of them was this (make gesture for 'more'). What does this mean? More! I want ...
Series: Philippians
Bob Ingle
Philippians 4:10-13
Open your Bible to Philippians 4. I'm not a medical doctor, but I'm pretty sure many of us suffer from a disease that's gone undetected and undiagnosed. You might not recognize the disease, but you might recognize some of its symptoms:
This disease has been known to cause a man to get into his very nice car that he's only had a year or two and think, ''I need to trade this in for a different one.''
This disease has been known to cause a woman to WALK into her closet (not look into) WALK into her closet where she is literally surrounded by walls of clothes and say, ''I don't have a thing to wear.''
This disease often causes teenagers to dislike other teenagers just because they have a newer cell phone, or a skinner body, or more snapchat followers, or cuter clothes, or more popular friends.
This devastating disease has driven many families to bankruptcy and escorted countless couples to divorce court. What disease am I referring to?
Yeah. It's the disease of discontentment. Discontentment is a major epidemic, but no one seems to be interested in a cure. We are the most privileged generation this nation has ever known, and yet we are the most discontent the world has ever seen.
Now to be fair, this disease of discontentment didn't start with us, or even with our country. You can trace it all the way back to the beginning of human history. Adam and Eve lived in an amazing paradise of perfection full of beauty and abundance. Quite literally, the whole world was theirs. But what happened? Satan convinced them that God was holding out on them and that they could have and should have MORE. They had everything, but they wanted MORE! Sounds familiar doesn't it?
Before my kids could communicate with words, Jana taught them to communicate with some basic sign language. I remember one of them was this (make gesture for 'more'). What does this mean? More! I want ...
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