After that, they feel upset about their financial position and grieve their hearts with their desires, which they can’t quench.
The same thing happens to the people when see their desired buildings, home appliances, and jobs.
This upset leads them toward frustration, which generate grave dangers to them.
No man thinks about the things he can’t buy. Instead, he’d better be satisfied with what has been given to him by God. This gives him peace and happiness.
People are ruing peace and happiness with their deeds:
A middle class man strives to become a rich man.
A millionaire strives to become a billionaire.
A billionaire takes pains to be a trillionair.
A company keeps on trying to take over its rival.
How on earth could they live in peace and happiness with these deeds? They have no satisfaction with what they have; they still want more. Though get the more they desired they want some more.
They are not content with what they have. We’re also more or less like them. We shouldn’t be in the state anymore. Let’s be satisfied with what we have. St. Paul wrote nice things about being content.
Be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want- Ph. 4:11-12.
The secret of being content is to be satisfied with what we have.
You have a small home, so praise God; some don’t have at least one.
Be satisfied with your car and praise God; some can’t afford to buy your car even if you want to get rid of it with little profit.
You get to work by bus or train? Then, thank our heavenly father, who has given you money to buy tickets; some use cycles as they can’t afford to buy the tickets.
The cyclists must thank God, who has given them strength to peddle the cycle; some people have no strength to walk or stand though they are stinking rich.
You eat enough food, leaving crumbs on your table, whereas in some countries people are dying of starvation.
God said:
My grace is sufficient for you- 2Co. 12:9. His grace is enough for us to lead our life and be content.
The life of an unsatisfied man will be awful.
Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self-control- Pr. 25:28.
Satisfaction is like a wall to our life. If you we don’t posses the wall of satisfaction, we will never enjoy peace and joy. Our desires let us down.
Therefore learn to be satisfied at all time and be thankful to God.
There are some people who think in a different way. They say, “If only I were born like the rich. God made me a common man.”
My dear brothers, come to your sense.
Who are you, O man, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, `Why did you make me like this?” Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?- Ro. 9:20-21.
You know a truth? WE ARE ONE in CHRIST.
The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other-. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it - 1Co. 12:21-27.
My brothers, God assigned a specific work to everyone in the world, and we must do it without grumbling. It doesn’t matter whether we’re poor or the rich. We’re here to do the work God assigned us. We must accomplish it. The poor shouldn’t feel sorry, as they are not born like the rich. The rich were allotted for another works.
If the rich fail to do the works, they must pay for it. Likewise if the poor fail to do their work, they must pay for it.
It’s every one’s duty to do the work given by God. The poor shouldn’t say to the rich, ‘You’re exploiting us and using us. How long shall we toil for you?’
Does our hand say to our head, ‘I don’t work for you. You are using me.’
It never says so, because it is combined with the body. In the same way, the rich and the poor combined in Christ. Therefore the poor shouldn’t be jealous of the rich and feel sorry not being born like the rich.
Forsake the thought and do your work, brother. You know how to do the work?
Obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. Obey them not only to win their favour when their eye is on you, but like slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart. Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not men- Ep. 6:5-7.
The rich shall not say to the poor, “You were born to work for us. Do it.” Because the poor are doing the work assigned by God.
Masters, treat your slaves in the same way {Ep.6:5-7}. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favouritism with him- Ep. 6:9.
