{"id":168,"date":"2024-02-11T22:56:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T22:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inrich.org\/?p=168"},"modified":"2024-02-15T16:13:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T16:13:42","slug":"providence-and-contentment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inrich.org\/index.php\/2024\/02\/11\/providence-and-contentment\/","title":{"rendered":"Providence and Contentment"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>One of the most challenging statements in the Scriptures is that &#8220;godliness with contentment is great gain.&#8221; Perhaps this is because the combination of those two words seems a bit unusual. But the more we think about it, the more we realize how contentment actually is a crucial spiritual value, even a mark of a truly godly person. <br \/>Recently I have been thinking about how this relates to a proper and ongoing sense of the providence of God. Reflecting on &#8212; and resting in &#8212; the truth that our God is in control of all things, all events, all circumstances; and that He orchestrates everything for His glory AND our good, is a key to developing a contented spirit. Octavius Winslow makes this point in commenting on Psalm 31:15, (My times are in Thy hand). &#8220;Learn to be content with your present lot, with God&#8217;s dealings with you, and His disposal of you. <em>You are just where His providence has, in its inscrutable but all-wise and righteous decision, placed you.<\/em> It may be a position painful, irksome, trying, but it is right. Only aim to glorify Him in it.&#8221;\u00a0 Winslow goes on to challenge us in applying this truth: &#8220;Wherever you are placed, God has a work for you to do, a purpose through you to be accomplished in which He blends your happiness with His glory.&#8221;\u00a0 May we learn to trust our wise and loving God by learning, as the apostle Paul did, to be content in all circumstances.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most challenging statements in the Scriptures is that &#8220;godliness with contentment is great gain.&#8221; Perhaps this is because the combination of those two words seems a bit unusual. But the more we think about it, the more we realize how contentment actually is a crucial spiritual value, even a mark of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inrich.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inrich.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inrich.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inrich.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inrich.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inrich.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/inrich.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inrich.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inrich.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inrich.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}