Dale Partridge - January 15, 2020


Real Christianity #80: How to be Content in a World of Complainers


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00:00:00.000 Welcome to Real Christianity. Today, we are talking about how to be content in a world of 0.96
00:00:04.720 complainers. Oh, snap. Yeah, we're going there. We're going to have that discussion. Right before
00:00:10.780 we started this episode, Veronica was talking about my eyebrows, saying that my eyebrow hairs
00:00:16.720 are... He just always has these like five eyebrow hairs in each eyebrow that are like three times
00:00:23.760 as long as your other eyebrow hairs. And then when I'm sitting here doing podcasts, I feel like
00:00:28.680 they're just like waving at me you're just like sticking out looking you know the old people the 0.75
00:00:33.160 old guys you know what i should have got you for christmas is one of those like trimmers and put
00:00:36.900 it in your stocking like the nose hair hair nose hair eyebrow hair trimmers this could have been
00:00:43.140 a thing well um on that note anyway anyway speaking of complaining yeah so let's talk about um yeah
00:00:51.360 contentment um but before we begin i wanted to ask you guys if you guys haven't left a review
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00:01:44.420 proactive about it because when otherwise the conversation about pouring in your marriage
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00:02:10.780 ultimate marriage. So why are we doing this show on contentment? Well, um, I think it's pretty
00:02:19.560 obvious as veronica said we live in a world of complainers and a covet culture and um we
00:02:27.180 as christians fall prey to this stuff quite often um all of us do and we need to discuss
00:02:34.320 what the bible says about this need to be on guard have our eyes open to it yeah it's sad
00:02:39.200 because often i'll get on instagram or social media platform most often it's generally instagram
00:02:45.080 and i'll open it and all of a sudden you'll just see like this steady stream of insta stories
00:02:52.120 from stay-at-home moms or just what i mean i follow mostly women so i'm talking about them
00:02:59.400 in this regard um of them just complaining about their children or their health or how tired they
00:03:07.120 are or their current circumstances and why everything sucks basically um and i mean if
00:03:15.080 you're like me you know i'm no saint i'm sure i i've had my fair share of doing stuff like that
00:03:19.020 i've struggled with contentment um quite a bit and i've actually known for a while that it's
00:03:23.780 something that i need to revisit um and start working on in my spirit and my character um
00:03:30.540 And for most people, that simply means struggling with coveting, meaning we live in a comparison culture, especially with social media today.
00:03:41.060 We're constantly measuring ourselves against the highlight reels of other people's lives that we see online.
00:03:48.400 Little do you know, you know, the same person that's posting a video of them like laughing and tickling their kid was that same mom was probably like sobbing and bawling her eyes out earlier that morning.
00:03:57.460 You know, yeah, but we're just so nobody's going to post that.
00:04:00.540 on social media. Um, yeah, we get caught up in the, they have this and I don't, or their marriage
00:04:07.100 is good and mine isn't. How come my husband doesn't talk to talk about me that way? Um,
00:04:12.360 or their house is nice and mine's not, they, they built their house. We have to go build a house
00:04:17.200 or, you know, all of these different comparison things that we see online. Um, their, their health
00:04:23.280 is strong mine is weak things like that and so um for others uh learning contentment is a much
00:04:30.960 deeper duty um i want you to think about those brothers and sisters in christ who are learning
00:04:36.800 to be content and having to learn to be content in the midst of suffering or disease or in death
00:04:44.820 or the loss of a friend you know i've been recently seeing on social media there's this
00:04:50.340 um big youtube woman star i guess um whose son just passed away suddenly and it it's it's
00:04:58.900 devastating um so contentment can be applied to things that are shallow and to things that are
00:05:06.340 deep um and so we're going to start the conversation today um i'm going to use my
00:05:11.540 friend nancy wilson's definition of contentment that she used in her book titled learning contentment
00:05:16.980 which states contentment is the ability to remain satisfied with god's will in all circumstances
00:05:23.140 whether easy or difficult and i just i loved that definition i know dale and i have over the years
00:05:29.160 have had many conversations about contentment mostly me struggling with it um and you worded
00:05:34.880 it to me and walked me through that and i you know i've known what the truth says but for some
00:05:38.440 reason her definition just like made sense hit the nail on the head for me and i was just like
00:05:43.300 i was really convicted by it yeah and so she wrote this book it's a it's a book for women
00:05:47.260 um i actually looked at it quite a bit while i was writing some notes for this podcast
00:05:52.700 um nancy wilson is yeah it's doug wilson's wife um we actually just got a chance to spend a little
00:05:58.380 bit of time with them veronica got to sit down with nancy um and just chat with her but gave
00:06:04.280 her a copy of this book and you got a chance to go through it so we're doing this podcast it's a
00:06:07.640 short book it's a short book like 100 pages yeah it's really thin and it's really good learning
00:06:12.380 contentment um so when i think about the opposite of contentment i think about the term stressed out
00:06:20.940 or overwhelmed discontent yeah and you know i've been historically um not so much over the last
00:06:29.260 couple years but when i was in the business world for sure like that term stressed out was a
00:06:35.020 identifier life yeah it was an identifier of how I how I thought and now you know we've all been 0.99
00:06:42.980 there but what I'm saying is that there's no valid reason for a Christian to be stressed out 0.99
00:06:49.060 okay that's a really big statement but just stay along with me here for a second 0.73
00:06:54.720 I would say that every time you actually say the phrase I'm stressed out you're basically
00:07:02.700 advertising that god's you know i would say advertising god's inability to satisfy you
00:07:08.640 that's what you're saying to to to whoever's listening to you like i'm stressed out right
00:07:13.360 you're saying like i don't like where god has me right now these circumstances are not what i
00:07:17.980 deserve um you know god is failing to meet my expectations that's basically what's being
00:07:23.240 displayed through through that phrase uh over and over again you're you're discontent with where
00:07:30.760 you're at that's what's causing that stress and you know we think that being stressed out is some
00:07:37.020 like neutral territory to god but the bible would call this posture sinful there's there's actually
00:07:44.820 a lot about contentment more than you would think and i i started diving into the scriptures and
00:07:49.940 wow there's like this podcast could be four times as long um but we're going to try to you know keep
00:07:55.760 it short. Being stressed out is basically the manifestation of a heart that's not satisfied
00:08:01.480 with God's will in their life. It's like saying, God, you have me here, but I want to be there.
00:08:10.820 And that's not a yielded heart to the Lord and his will. And I think Nancy said it really good
00:08:18.540 in her book. She said this quote, just because a situation is stressful doesn't mean we need to be
00:08:24.620 stressed out and i thought that was a really good just because something stressful doesn't
00:08:30.360 mean you need to be stressed out and there's all types of stressful situations we have three kids
00:08:34.340 people okay there's some stressful situations not to like make myself sound like really incredible
00:08:40.760 or anything but um i the situation that just got brought up to mind was when aria had surgery
00:08:46.860 oh yeah almost it's a great two and a half years ago i was the i was the failure here
00:08:51.380 you were incredibly stressed out i was i mean i i get it it's our daughter she's having surgery
00:08:57.020 um but you're you know walking around pacing the halls the entire surgery crying i was totally
00:09:02.740 crying and i was sitting in the waiting room putting a puzzle together and you're like how
00:09:07.860 are you doing this right now what's right i'm just like it's out of my hands like there's nothing i
00:09:12.000 can do it's just a different situation there's definitely other situations where i get way more
00:09:17.500 stressed out than you would for sure we call those dale fails you call them that i don't call it that
00:09:23.780 i wouldn't i don't think i'd react that way anymore no that was but a while ago i was a mess
00:09:29.260 i was a mess have your how old was she two she was two two and a half maybe three two and a half
00:09:35.260 year old going to surgery oh that was terrible um okay jesus was never stressed out and just
00:09:44.180 let's just look at this for a second. He was angry. He was distraught. He mourned. He experienced
00:09:49.460 anguish, but he was never overwhelmed. He was never worried. He was never fearful or anxious.
00:09:58.560 He sweat blood, but you might say he's overwhelmed. No, he's not overwhelmed.
00:10:04.440 Just because the situation is stressful doesn't mean that he's stressed out.
00:10:08.340 And in fact, Hebrews 12, 2 says, look unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith,
00:10:14.180 Who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross.
00:10:19.020 See, because Jesus wasn't forced to go to the cross.
00:10:21.640 He chose the cross with joy because he's God, right?
00:10:26.900 He's God in the flesh.
00:10:28.080 In other words, Jesus was content with the Father's will, even to the point of death.
00:10:34.420 He was content with that will.
00:10:36.340 And you might also be thinking of the verse in Matthew 26, 39 that reads,
00:10:40.900 He went a little farther and fell on his face and prayed, saying,
00:10:44.180 oh my father if it is possible let this cup pass from me nevertheless not as i will but as you will
00:10:53.120 you know some translations say as your your will be done and that statement even to the point of
00:10:59.260 death jesus is content with the father's will in his life yeah i think of the evidence uh the
00:11:06.600 evidence of a content person um means there is the absence of complaining yeah um imagine a
00:11:13.760 complaining jesus on his way to the cross yeah you can't you can't because it's it's not true
00:11:19.060 it didn't happen um jesus was completely content with god's will for his life and if we're going
00:11:24.940 to follow jesus then we need to hold the same posture towards our own circumstances yeah our
00:11:30.800 own trials which are lighter than going to the cross and about to take on god's wrath and i
00:11:35.700 would suggest just a little suggestion learn this before you're in deep trials because dill and i
00:11:42.000 I've just walked through two years of trial after trial after trial after trial.
00:11:46.760 And unfortunately, it took, at least for me, going through those trials to learn contentment.
00:11:51.640 Yeah, I've been telling people also, study suffering before you suffer.
00:11:57.820 Because I promise you, it's coming.
00:11:59.800 It comes for all of us, suffering, trials, issues here.
00:12:04.540 One thing I want to point out is a lack of contentment isn't just a solo sin.
00:12:10.440 this is a really guys this is going to go so much deeper in a second you're going to realize how
00:12:15.540 gross this stuff is um you know discontent is the birthplace of many other sins and you might
00:12:25.040 even say that being discontent is like a gateway sin um you know it's the origin of of sins like
00:12:32.660 complaining um which philippians says do not complain you know everything do not complain
00:12:39.160 about anything but in everything by prayer and supplication yeah there we go i think i think
00:12:44.280 we're mixing two scriptures there do everything without complaining there you go disputing there
00:12:49.040 you go you got it do all do all things without complaining or disputing that you may become
00:12:52.500 blameless harmless children of god look at us you may shine as lights as so i'm butchering it a
00:12:56.700 little bit but you know what i mean this is lights in the world and in the midst of a crooked and
00:13:00.160 perverse generation veronica's initials are vip so this is the vip um translation boom okay so um
00:13:07.220 so yeah you might even say that it's a gateway sin and um what births out of a discontent heart
00:13:14.940 is complaining anger worry adultery pornography you think that guys are content with their sex
00:13:24.860 life in today's world no that's why you know 90 of men and like 70 of christian men look at
00:13:36.200 pornography on a regular basis. Debt. What do you think debt comes from? Well, it's this idea of not
00:13:43.200 having what you think you need and going into debt. Striving, fear. This is a cesspool of
00:13:51.020 grossness that comes out of a discontent heart. And so it's this breeding ground for all these
00:13:58.160 sinful desires. And, you know, I think about Eve in the garden. Okay, so she was perfect in every
00:14:04.540 way uh she had a perfect husband she had a perfect life the temperature was probably 81 degrees or
00:14:11.700 78 degrees in the garden of eden she lived in paradise and it was in complete fellowship with
00:14:17.940 god she had access to god it's just awesome right and and she was in a world of a thousand yeses
00:14:24.160 and one no you could do anything you want except this one thing and the enemy
00:14:32.160 used discontentment, what she didn't have.
00:14:37.020 You don't have the knowledge of good and evil, right?
00:14:40.020 Because you're going to be like God, you know,
00:14:42.060 to cause her to initiate sin into our world.
00:14:48.260 And so the very beginning, right?
00:14:50.200 Just think about this for a second.
00:14:52.180 If you want to trace back the very beginning
00:14:55.360 of the fall of the human race and the human condition,
00:14:58.740 it all began with a discontent heart.
00:15:02.160 that's amazing.
00:15:04.720 And to not talk about this,
00:15:06.180 I feel like I should have done 12 sermons on this by now
00:15:09.240 in terms of just what this is the kind of kingpin
00:15:15.920 of so many different issues.
00:15:18.200 Thomas Watson, who's a Puritan,
00:15:21.340 said a fantastic statement.
00:15:23.520 He said,
00:15:24.920 Satan loves to fish in the troubled waters
00:15:27.380 of a discontented heart.
00:15:29.820 Think about that.
00:15:30.940 don't allow satan to go fishing in your discontent heart to pull out a whale
00:15:35.260 right because this is what happens satan loves to fish in the troubled waters of a discontented
00:15:40.800 heart so basically discontentment is not wanting what we do have and desiring what we don't have
00:15:48.900 but when we're content we remove both of these positions and our hearts are satisfied in all
00:15:56.080 circumstances at all times. I think Paul gives the best example of this in Philippians 4 verse 11
00:16:03.000 through 13. And it says, not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever
00:16:08.400 state I am to be content. I know how to be abased. I know how to abound everywhere and in all things
00:16:15.280 I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all
00:16:21.800 things through christ he strengthens me yeah and you think about this that key word he said there
00:16:26.440 is i have learned i have learned in whatever state i am to be content so the lord's patient
00:16:33.260 with us in this um after two years i finally have learned and we've learned and i've not mastered it
00:16:40.340 not saying that i've mastered it yeah but we've learned to get on to the step one of the hundred
00:16:45.720 rung ladder. And so, yeah, basically it's something we need to be constantly working on.
00:16:52.720 So I want to talk about one more scripture on the matter, and then we'll close on some points
00:16:56.920 of application here in a second. So I want to look at 1 Timothy chapter 6, 6 through 10. I'm
00:17:01.960 going to read it to you real quick. Paul's writing to Timothy, and he says, now godliness with
00:17:06.560 contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain that we can
00:17:12.660 carry nothing out and having food and clothing with these we shall be content basically he's
00:17:18.400 saying uh everything else is an extra blessing beyond food and clothing um verse nine but those
00:17:25.420 who desire to be rich implying that they're discontent because a desire to be rich is
00:17:30.320 incompatible with a content heart basically is what he's saying um fall into temptation
00:17:35.620 and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts, which drown men in destruction and
00:17:42.440 perdition. So he's confirming here that this supports our statement of discontentment being
00:17:48.240 a gateway sin. So he just said that, right? It says that fall into temptation and a snare and
00:17:53.180 into many foolish and harmful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. Verse 10,
00:17:58.600 for the love of money is, so the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil for which some
00:18:05.380 have strayed from the faith in their greediness and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
00:18:12.180 Philip Ryken made a really great quote I'm going to read. It says,
00:18:14.980 Our trouble is that so often we come to God with our greeds rather than our needs.
00:18:22.400 Already having everything we need, we pray for what we want.
00:18:26.600 This becomes the source of our discontent. We desire things that God has not promised.
00:18:31.360 and so guys um since we don't have a ton of time and i'm trying to keep these podcasts like
00:18:37.120 ideally under 30 minutes um i'm just going to teach on this first sentence
00:18:42.240 so now godliness with contentment is great gain i want you guys just to kind of have an
00:18:49.620 understanding what this means here so godliness when you think about being godly that's a desire
00:18:55.200 to see God's character reproduced in you.
00:19:00.280 And so, you know, ask yourself the question,
00:19:03.680 are you godly?
00:19:06.500 Are you trying to have God's character
00:19:09.260 reproduced into you?
00:19:11.660 That's the process of sanctification,
00:19:14.040 making you more like Christ.
00:19:15.780 Are you resisting that, or are you embracing that?
00:19:18.820 Are you looking for that?
00:19:20.560 Man, I'll tell you what, I'm running at that.
00:19:22.960 that's my hope and desire deep down, is that I just become more like Christ.
00:19:29.080 Now, contentment, as we talked about before, is the acceptance of God's will in your life,
00:19:33.340 regardless of the circumstances.
00:19:35.680 And so Paul is telling us that our priority as Christians should not be to become rich
00:19:42.640 or famous or healthy or smart.
00:19:45.440 That's not the priority.
00:19:47.140 Our priority is to be godly.
00:19:49.680 And when you combine that objective with contentment or accepting God's will in your life, you will be, in my opinion, the most joyful person that you possibly could be.
00:20:03.280 Is that godliness with contentment is great gain in comparison to like you think being rich is great gain.
00:20:10.660 You think having fame is great gain.
00:20:12.280 No, it's not godliness is great gain.
00:20:16.260 okay so let's look at some practical points of application um first we have to recognize that
00:20:22.660 discontentment is ugly and it never delivers um it will not make you happier it will not make you
00:20:29.140 holier healthier more likable or definitely not more at peace um it's a trap of absent
00:20:36.100 a trap absent of gratitude um a pond filled with poison a place where god cannot see you
00:20:43.720 yeah and it's this you're not cannot see you cannot use you yeah it's this place you're just
00:20:49.720 going it's just a gross place like think about whenever you've been discontent like you just
00:20:57.820 you should you kind of go i think about those times in my life and i go i just feel gross and
00:21:03.060 i wouldn't want the lord next to me right now i think nancy talks about it in her book i was 0.73
00:21:08.020 telling you about it earlier she refers to it as dumpster diving yeah so your your mind is like a
00:21:13.720 dumpster full of these discontentments and thoughts and if you're sitting on them and stewing on it's
00:21:18.940 trash you're sitting on them and stewing on them and meditating on them instead of meditating on 0.91
00:21:23.780 what the word of god tells you to meditate you're dumpster diving yeah she referred to it as yeah 0.98
00:21:29.280 you're just focusing so much on what you don't have and you're just forgetting the fact that
00:21:34.520 oh you know what you're breathing and your heart's still beating and you laughed today and you're
00:21:41.520 not naked and your belly is full yeah there you go yeah that's a win um and so veronica to number
00:21:47.580 one number two uh is without christ there's no contentment there can be no contentment without
00:21:53.640 christ he is the source of contentment and in him we have more than we deserve so just the gospel in
00:22:01.400 itself is sufficient to meet all your needs of contentment like if you even if you didn't have
00:22:09.120 food or or um clothing but you had the gospel and you died with the gospel you are still
00:22:17.940 more rich than when you came in it's the only thing that you can take out with you is the gospel
00:22:23.860 is this idea that you're saved and you have eternity with with christ and so through god's
00:22:29.820 truth and the conviction of the holy spirit contentment is possible so i'm letting you know
00:22:35.460 christian you can be content you can learn contentment like paul did and um but if you're
00:22:43.540 not pursuing christ and his word i don't expect to to learn to be content um and uh i'll tell you
00:22:52.600 man it's it's so the last couple years we got into ministry you know we came to the business world
00:22:57.960 and we had a lot more money when we were in the business world and now we're living on a lot less
00:23:03.340 and um we have learned even in our own journey to be content with what we have
00:23:11.160 i feel like just stopping striving for like the next thing because the business world is like
00:23:15.760 a machine to make you yeah it trains you for that it trains you to be discontent
00:23:19.480 it's been such a joy to rest and go you know what man we have we have a lot we have way more than
00:23:26.720 we deserve yeah contentment isn't being complacent and killing off all of your desires just wanted
00:23:34.440 to mention that contentment is being thankful with where god has you and patient for what's next
00:23:40.640 that being said true contentment is maintaining a thankful heart even if your desires and prayers
00:23:47.560 aren't answered according to your desires yeah and so you can still have these desires right
00:23:53.200 is you can still have hopes yeah you have hopes have dreams have i don't know a goal or whatever
00:24:01.000 it is and be praying about those things um but being content even if god's answer is no
00:24:06.220 and being content while you're waiting is the key you know so you could we're not saying to go
00:24:11.760 kill off all your desires and dreams you know because you already have too much no you can
00:24:17.840 still have those things i have all types of dreams but i'm just sitting going all right lord
00:24:23.060 you have me here today um next next best move you know right foot left foot right foot left foot
00:24:29.480 and so another thing i want to point out is as we kind of close in these points here taking turns
00:24:35.740 here contentment doesn't necessarily mean that you're happy in the moment um and meaning that
00:24:43.880 you can be content and not necessarily in that moment be happy um what it does mean is that
00:24:50.860 you're yielded and you're faithful and in that yielded state and through your trust in god
00:25:00.380 you can find joy and so there's a difference between happiness and joy and so you know it's
00:25:09.500 hard to be happy about your cancer diagnosis you can be joyful in the midst of a cancer diagnosis
00:25:15.920 and you can be content in those things and so these are really important distinctions and i
00:25:22.660 wish we could dive deeper into them but i wanted to make that quick point fifth uh gratitude is
00:25:28.860 the greatest weapon against discontentment um start your day off in your prayers with gratitude
00:25:35.000 psalm 104 says enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise give thanks to him
00:25:41.000 bless his name again i mean this just yeah reminds me of people in persecuted countries like
00:25:48.180 be thankful that you live in america if you're listening to this and you live in america
00:25:52.320 or you know yeah or just any country that you don't have to hide
00:25:55.320 you know hide the fact that you're being a christian yeah exactly and um yeah and just
00:26:03.100 i would say another thing that we didn't add in here is there's things that if the internet
00:26:08.360 really makes you stumble um you know it's okay to take a break from the internet get your heart
00:26:15.700 pure now you do need to be able to get back on the internet and still not stumble you know um
00:26:20.600 i'm not saying like these i'm talking this idea people have like pornography software i'm gonna
00:26:25.780 i'm gonna the software's gonna fix me no it's not gonna fix you um you need to make the change in
00:26:31.640 your heart but there's nothing wrong with staying off the computer a little bit when you're when
00:26:35.080 you're dealing with that issue and so if if instagram is making you discontent you know
00:26:40.560 take a week off work on your heart with the lord um get rid of the things that maybe make you
00:26:46.340 discontent um and so last but not least oh maybe i did put this in here oh anyways this is kind of
00:26:53.380 an idea of it uh is subtract uh this is from her book i thought it was just a point that you want
00:26:59.540 to, you got to put in there, minimize your desires. You know, we, we in the West and in the modern
00:27:07.040 culture, we have, we want so many things. There's things in this world that we want that we absolutely
00:27:12.900 don't need. We confuse our needs and our wants together. And, you know, what I'm saying here is
00:27:19.640 don't minimize your zeal for Christ or for godliness or for his kingdom, but, but minimize
00:27:27.120 your desires for your kingdom um you know recognize that you have more than you need
00:27:33.600 if you're listening to this podcast like trust me you have more than you need
00:27:36.640 um the homeless and in the west have more than they need um you know they have food and clothing
00:27:44.300 in america at least you know and so just we have to recognize that in that posture
00:27:50.580 that God has
00:27:52.740 richly blessed us with the gospel
00:27:55.340 alone. The fact that we have food
00:27:57.360 and clothing and anything else
00:27:59.180 is just amazing.
00:28:01.460 And so sit before the Lord in gratitude
00:28:02.860 and work in that heart of
00:28:05.080 contentment, learning contentment
00:28:07.580 as Paul did.
00:28:09.580 So we hope this episode was
00:28:11.240 helpful for you. You can find contentment
00:28:13.380 and guard against dissatisfaction
00:28:15.680 with the Lord's will.
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