"And having food and clothing, with
these we shall be content." ~1 Timothy 6:8
A little girl walking in a garden
noticed a particularly beautiful flower. She admired its beauty and enjoyed its
fragrance. "It’s so pretty!" she exclaimed. As she gazed on it, her eyes
followed the stem down to the soil in which it grew. "This flower is too pretty
to be planted in such dirt!" she cried. So she pulled it up by its roots and ran
to the water faucet to wash away the soil. If wasn’t long until the flower
wilted and died.
When the gardener saw what the little
girl had done, he exclaimed, "You have destroyed my finest plant!" "I’m sorry,
but I didn’t like it in that dirt," she said. The gardener replied, "I chose
that spot and mixed the soil because I knew that only there could it grow to be
a beautiful flower."
Often we murmur because of the
circumstances into which God has sovereignly placed us. We fail to realize that
He is using our pressures, trials, and difficulties to bring us to a new degree
of spiritual beauty. Contentment comes when we accept what God is doing and
thank Him for it. Contentment enables you to grow where God has planted
you.
Our Daily Bread, 9-9-92
Hebrews 13:5
Let your
conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as
ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
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