This weekend at Suncrest’s East Campus, we began a new series titled “Making Change”. In the first sermon of the series, “Creating Room to Breathe”, Greg discussed the idea of creating margin in your life, specifically financial margin, and challenged us with the following scripture:
But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. - 1 Timothy 6:6-9
I cannot get that scripture out of my head.
If all I had was just food and clothing. That’s it. Nothing else. Food. Clothing. No TV. No iPod. No computer. No car. Nothing else. Just food and clothes. Would I be content?
The question of finding contentment with just food and clothing is so poignant to me. While I want to say yes, I know if I was really honest with myself, the answer is no. And what’s so sad about that is if you keep reading, the scripture says…People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.
How many times have we seen that? America is evidence to the truth of this scripture. Look around and you’ll see mounting debt ruining lives, homes forclosed, fraud schemes landing folks in prison, etc.
So how would you answer the scripture? Would you be content?
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