Contributor: Kellie Spencer
How many times have you walked into your favorite store with intent to buy a particular item and ended up walking out with more shopping bags than you originally planned? It happens to the best of us. So when I reflect on the guilt I feel when the total “surprisingly” appears on the screen, the answer always seems to be whispering in my ear: contentment. Why is it that we always seem to want more than we have, or always wish we had someone else’s life? The answer: we are not content. So what exactly is contentment? Being happy with what you already have. This means that we are to constantly be in a state of contentment or expressing it by acting it out in our lives. Money, power, and greed are so commonly intertwined. The Bible tells us that money itself is not what will ruin a person, but rather it is the love of the abnormal pursuit of money that will corrupt (1 Timothy 6:10, NIV). Being content with what God has entrusted us is a spiritual battle and one you will have to be properly equipped for. In Hebrews 13:5 it says, “Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, ‘Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you’.”
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