Fighting for Contentmen
Scripture Reading: Hebrews 13:5-6
Hebrews finishes with a flourish of exhortations and commands in chapter 13. Two of those are conjoined twins.
Keep your life free from the love and money, and be content with what you have…
Being content with what you have necessitates being free from the love of money. Being free from the love of money requires us to be content with what we have.
This is easier said than done. How can we have victory in this area of life? How can we be content with what we have?
Faith.
The writer of Hebrews continues and gives us a reason to be content and that reason is found in the promises of God.
For he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
We aren’t told what Scripture the writer is referring to. It doesn’t matter because the Lord said this more than once. What matters is our response to the promise. Will we believe it?
One way to bolster our faith in the promise is to verbalize it. Now, I am not promoting a name-it-claim-it theology or a belief that we speak things into existence. What I am promoting is the idea that faith is both evidenced by and strengthened by our verbal confession of what we believe.
We see this principle in the gospel. “If we confess with our mouth and believe in our heart…” Jesus said we must “confess Him before men.”
So, it is tremendously helpful to your battle over discontentment and the love of money to Confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”
