In this world, it seems very difficult for most of us to maintain contentment.  How easy it is to look around us and want more.  It is perhaps even easier to be anxious about whether or not our needs will be met from day to day.  Questions about our health, safety of our families, our income, our job, and our comfort are constantly arising in the midst of life's activity and demands.  And though these thoughts and concerns are realistic and part of humanity, God tells us to pursue peace and contentment.  Thankfully He also tells us how to do so!  In Philippians 4:11-13 Paul gives us the secret.  It is His strength that allows us the ability to rise above our circumstances!  So....it seems to me that there is a trust factor in learning to be content!  Trusting that whether we are in need or have plenty, we must rely on Him and believe that His eye is on the sparrow (meaning His beloved children who have answered "yes" to His call).  He promises in Hebrews 14:5 that He will never leave us if we keep our lives free from the love of money and be content!  Wow!  There must be some correlation there!  Mmmmm....more secrets??  I Timothy 6:6-11 speaks of Godliness as the source of contentment.  So true contentment is related to our walking with God, pursuing His righteousness above all other desires, and having faith in Him, believing He does indeed love us!  It even speaks of faith in Him as being something that can move mountains!!  

Lord, may I trust you enough that mountains of doubt and worry are removed in my life!  Allow me to rest in your faithfulness and love to the point that contentment becomes my way of life.