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Contentment | Season 3 Ep 5

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Satisfied. That is what we are striving for, right? If you could just get to…everything would be great. Then you could relax.

I don’t want to be content in that way. I want to be content the way Paul was content. He says in Philippians 4:11 that he has “learned to be content whatever the circumstance.” He says he learned it. In looking up the Greek I discovered that using learned here shows that Paul has gained this knowledge of contentment through experience. Keep in mind he was writing from prison.

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Satisfied. That is what we are striving for, right? If you could just get to…everything would be great. Then you could relax.

I don’t want to be content in that way. I want to be content the way Paul was content. He says in Philippians 4:11 that he has “learned to be content whatever the circumstance.” He says he learned it. In looking up the Greek I discovered that using learned here shows that Paul has gained this knowledge of contentment through experience. Keep in mind he was writing from prison.

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