Fri.-Sabbath, 3/20-22/15 Devotion

Yippee—it is almost Sunday! We GET to go back to church! In order to help get us ready for worship, here is Thomas Watson, from his book, entitled, "The Art of Divine Contentment":

"Contentment is a divine thing; it becomes ours, not by acquisition, but infu-sion. It is a slip taken off from the tree of life, and planted by the Spirit of God in the soul. It is a fruit that grows not in the garden of philosophy, but is of a heavenly birth. It is therefore very observable that contentment is joined with godliness, and goes with it; 'Godliness with contentment is great gain,' (1 Tim. 6:6).

"Contentment being a consequent of godliness, or concomitant, or both, I call it divine, to distinguish it from that contentment which a [merely] moral man may arrive at. Heathens have seemed to have this contentment, but it was only the shadow and picture of [the real thing]. It was the [fake], not the true diamond. Theirs was but civil, this is sacred; theirs was only from principles of reason, this of religion; theirs was only lighted at nature's torch, this at the lamp of scripture. . . . "