You Get What You Get
True godliness with contentment is itself great wealth. After all, we brought nothing with us when we came into the world, and we can’t take anything with us when we leave it. So if we have enough food and clothing, let us be content. But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
1 TIMOTHY 6:6-9
“YOU GET WHAT YOU GET, and you don’t throw a fit.”
You’ve probably heard this before. If you haven’t, repeat it and remember it. It’s a great way to remind people to be happy with what they have.
God blesses us beyond what we could ask for. Through our parents and families, our schools and communities, we have most of our needs taken care of. So why do we always want more? More money, more clothes, more food, more vacation, more, more, more. It’s part of being human that we strive for more. We wish we had more than we have now. We feel successful and important when we have more.
But God says, “Enough.”
“If we have enough food and clothing, let us be content,” today’s verse says. Being content means we’re happy with what we have. We don’t spend time being miserable wishing for what we don’t have. And we don’t put our desire for things like money and clothes and fancy houses above our desire for God. This verse is a great reminder that when God is our first desire, we’ll be content with and wealthy in the rest of our lives.
DO
Talk to your family about the things they wish they could have. Discuss these questions:
- If you could have everything you ever wanted, but not God, would you take it?
- Why does it matter to God that we’re content with what we have?
PRAY
Dear God,
Thank you for all the blessings in my life. Please remind me to be content with what I have and to keep you as my number-one desire in life. Amen.
READ
2 Corinthians 12:10; Philippians 4:11-13