June 16th, 2024 - Philippians 4:10-13 | God's Provision

10 I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity. 11 Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. 12 I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. 13 I can do all things through him who strengthens me.


With life with Christ I have nothing to lose because I have the one who has given me all in my heart. In Paul's letter to the Philippians, he brings up a very important part of being christian that is an insanely positive benefit to life when mastered. The idea of contentment. When one truly puts all the effort of their spirit towards serving God, as I wrote about last week, we find that the meaning behind this fulfills every reason in life to simply not have any worry about any of the things we waste so much time being anxious and taking away brainpower from the more important things in life such as Jesus or family. We all have been deeply programmed for a false need to worry about things that do not matter in the grand scheme of the world God designed. I personally spend way too much time worrying about money or even material possession, but in prayer, when I solely turn my mind to God, He is all I see. It sounds almost suicidal and zealous in a way but it makes perfect sense when it is understood. God created this life for us, Jesus died on the cross for our sins and loves us unconditionally. If I die tomorrow, I would be content knowing that I chose to live my life in His image, rather than astray, chasing short term desires that only envoke my sins, never feeling guilt for the free will that God gave us as a privelidge. Of course it is a deeply sad thing that would happen, my life on this world ending, but contentment would still be there. In the same way one feels about the death of an old grandparent, that lived a long and full life; the loss will be saddening but we can be grateful and content that it happened in the first place. Even if I do not end up in heaven, or hell, I will be content that I chose to give myself to God.

Paul expresses how his strength is infinite how he can do all things because of God. If you live in contentment, all the little things in life we choose to worry about will no longer be worries, as Christ fulfills all our needs. God gave us that chance through his son, why shouldn't our gratitude be anything but full for Him? Why shouldn't our contentment in life be great when we see Him everytime we are living life.

I have began to show such passion for the Lord in my daily routine. A few years ago I would have never thought that I would be looking forward to going to church every sunday. In the car I like to listen to sermons to better learn about the word of God. Today I listened to R.C Sproul talk about the genealogy of Jesus in the beginning of the book of Matthew for 25 minutes, something that honestly bored me when I read it. By the end of his sermon, I had found such purpose in it being there and while I am still bored from reading it, I can be content of its existence and its purpose the same way I can be content with the way of life because of God. There is so much from the gospels to learn and that is why it is so important to go to church and/or listen to sermons, to see a further explaination behind these words, it never fails to bring me contentment in life.

I have began caring less about money and more about God, I don't want to spend my life obsessing to things that do not translate to anything else outside this world. I am content, or at least trying to be. Humans are not perfect, why do you think Jesus dies for our sins, but if we truly try in our souls, things are going to work themselves out...