LET US BE THEREWITH CONTENT

 

EVENING DEVOTION by James Smith

MAY 8

 

1 Timothy 6:8

And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.

 
We cannot really want more, and if God see fir to withhold, we ought not even to wish for more.
 
But our food may be coarse, and our raiment very common. What then!
 
If we have God’s blessing, if we enjoy his presence, we are better off than if we possessed a kingdom without them.
 
If God gave us no more, we ought to believe that more would be injurious to us.
 
God either loves us, or he does not.
 
He cares for us.
 
He provides for us, or he leaves things to chance.
 
If we are believers in Jesus Christ, God certainly does loves us, he does care for us, he does provide for us; if he has numbered the very hairs of our head, fixed the bounds of our habitation, promised to supply all our needs, he cannot have left anything to chance.
 
But such is the case.
 
Let us then be content with such things as we have.
 
Let us learn in every state therewith to be content.
 
Let us bear in mind that godliness with contentment is great gain, or a good future.
 
Remember that it is written, that “all things that pertain to life and godliness,” are given to us through the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
 

Great things are not what I desire,

Nor rich repast, nor gay attire;

Content with little would I be;

That little, Lord, must come from thee.

 
James Smith