Today Pastor Dennis Lum preached abt principle of contentment
6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. 8 But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. 9 Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of moneyis a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faithand pierced themselves with many griefs
v6: Godliness with contentment is great gain .
- satisfaction in a great way
v7: Time on earth is temporal. Do not be attached to the possessions on earth.
- Happiness & contentment doesn't always happen with having new stuff or more expensive stuff.
- Contentment stems from a heart of gratitude
3 ways
1) Grow a heart of contentment
2) Live simply
- instead of asking what more can I have, ask what else can I do without?
- declutter; simplify
- live below our means
- refocus on what's most impt (God)
3) Delight in God
- let yr hopes/wants/likes be all abt God
My thoughts
Personally I really like today's message. It reminds me of a book that Ange recommended me to read a few mths ago "Raising grateful kids in a self entitled world".
Ps Dennis first talked abt how every 1 in 5 Singaporeans are paying only the minimum on their credit card , thus raking in debt. In fact, he said that the credit card debt is at a 10 yrs high for Singapore. And what does that actually mean ? Over consumption? Buying too much of happiness ? Do we really believing that buying this will make us happy? What does happiness means to u ?
In a society which emphasis so much on buying a bigger xxx of everything, it's hard to be contented with what we have, n not think of "upgrading". I'm glad that bcoz of how tight we were in a few yrs ago, we had alrdy made our lives simpler.. N i hope in the years to come , we would b able to simplify even further.
Catch Ps Dennis on the sermons tom live on FB at 830am and 11am for the same message.. hope it will bless u as much as it has for us..
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