“For I have learned to 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. I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.” Phillipians 4:11
The secret Paul had learned, was to draw strength from God in times of trials. What would cause someone to even desire to be content in the situations he endured? It’s because Paul had discovered a remarkable truth. The same truth that Solomon discovered. That beyond wealth, knowlede, pleasures, desires, and success…God was infinitely more satisfying! When you have all you need, there is no need to look for anything more. There is no more need to fill the void with temporal things…because God alone is satisfying! Anything can be endured because God is worth it. He becomes like the pearl and the field that the merchant purchased–you are willing to give up everything! God is worth singleness. He’s worth persecution. He’s worth the giving of your self. He is worth it all…everthing else is rubbish in comparison.
“But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything loss comparared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have loss all things, I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him.” Phillipians 3:7-9. He goes on to say in verse 14, that the high calling of the gospel is the “prize.” We all have desires but our ultimate prize should be Christ’s gospel! On this alone did he consume his time and energy, and his life! Even to the point of death. Phillipians 1:21.
David, also knew that the Lord was infinitely more satisfying than anything. In Psalm 27 he writes, “One thing that I desire of the Lord, and this I will seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and seek him in his temple.” He said only ONE thing he desired! And that was to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord. God was more satisfying! David was so content in God, that he danced before the Lord with all his might 2 Samuel 6:14. Now the only time I’ve seen people dance like that is when it’s new years…and the pastor says “It’s your season for breakthrough…your about to get 100 fold!!” LOL!!! But see David knew a profound truth, he didn’t have to gaze upon desires or these things. In Psalm 37:4 he says, “Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” God alone was his desire. He knew that God is a jealous God and that he won’t give you the desires of your heart until you desire him above these things.
God says this,” My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.” Jeremiah 2:13. During that time, cisterns where placed in the ground to trap rainwater. People preferred broken cisterns to supply their needs…the cisterns of success, money, power, etc…but these would not hold water. But God is the source of living water! May we turn back to our first love–to our first commandment, to love God with all our mind, souls, and strength! May we stop chasing after the wind. Chasing after breakthrough after breakthrough….but understand that these things will be “added.” Instead that we will allow living water to flow out of us, so that we may help out people. John 7:38.
To reach such a level would require renewing your mind in the word of Christ!! Daily renewal. Daily dying to self! Because even as Solomon–the wisest man than ever lived, eventually was led back to idolatry. We have to continually die to self. I pray that you have benefited from the scriptures provided here. That you may be supernaturally transformed by the renewing of your mind, and know what the will of God is!! It is my eanrest desire that you are set free from the bondage desires and worry–being assured that God is more satisfying!!! Keep praying and believing!! Know that God is worth it all…he’s so satisfying. He is our first love, may he allow reign on the throwns of our hearts forever. May we pursue him alone. I will end with a scripture from I Timothy 6:6:
But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.
