The Blessing of Contentment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Feb 25, 1915

The Blessing of Contentment

THERE is no condition in life so health-giving as that of being in harmony with one’s environment. If we can feel that God has placed us where we are; that he has assigned to us our work, and that it is for us, even under the most forbidding circumstances, to do the best we can cheerfully and lovingly, it will relieve much of life’s pressure, and take away much of the discontent which otherwise comes to us. “Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoso purchaseth her at the expense of ten thousand desires, maketh a wise and happy choice.” The apostle Paul teaches this lesson of contentment when he says: “I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.” In Let us seek to adjust ourselves to our environment, even though we may feel that we have made a mistake and have been brought into our present situation by an unwise choice or by selfishly choosing our own way. In spite of all discouragements let us seek to do the best we can where we are. We should make wrongs right, confess the sins we have committed against God and against our fellows, and then by prayer, by submission, by confidence in God’s leadings, believe that he will adjust every circumstance in life and cause even an unfavorable situation to work for our good and for his glory.