Contentment

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[B]Voice 1: [/B] If the house were a little bigger… [B]Voice 2: [/B] If my computer was a little faster… [B]Voice 3:[/B] If they'd just pay me a little more… [B]Woodrow Kroll: [/B] Sound familiar? Of course, you and I would NEVER say such a thing, would we? Let's be honest. From time to time we all struggle with being discontent. I'm Woodrow Kroll and in today's Bible Minute we're looking at a powerful testimony from the apostle Paul. Here was a man who had been stoned, shipwrecked, beaten and left for dead, a likely candidate for the Discontentment of the Year Award. And yet Paul wrote in Philippians 4:11, "I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content." Now before you write Paul off as having unattainably high standards, don't miss what he said: "I have learned." You see, contentment didn't come naturally for Paul. I imagine he struggled considerably sitting in those filthy first century prisons. And yet, over time, he learned how to be content in every situation. How about you? Are you discontented right now? Then you need to go to God's storehouse of contentment, the Bible. There you'll find the secret to being content in all situations. The Bible. Read it for answers; read it for life.