Fri.-Sabbath, 9/20-22/13 Devotion

Yippee--Sunday is almost here! What an honor: to be in the church's worship on the Lord's Day!

Here is Thomas Watson, from his, "The Art of Divine Contentment" book:

"[This doctrine] shows how a Christian may come to lead a comfortable life, even a heaven upon earth, be the times what they will: by Chris-tian contentment. The comfort of life does not [consist] in having much. It is Christ’s maxim, 'Man’s life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesses,' (Lu. 12. 15)--but it is in being content-ed. Is not the bee as well contented with feeding on the dew, or suck-ing from a flower, as the ox that grazes on the mountains? Content-ment lies within a man, in the heart; and the way to be comfortable, is not by having our barns filled, but our minds quiet. The contented man, said Seneca, is the happy man.

"Discontent is a fretting humour, which dries the brains, wastes the spirits, corrodes and eats out the comfort of life. A drop or two of vine-gar will sour a whole glass of wine. Let a man have the affluence and confluence of worldly comforts, a drop or two of discontent will embitter and poison all."