What Contentment Is...Not

One of our greatest questions is how can we live a content life? One of our greatest struggles with contentment is that we often have an inaccurate and distorted picture of what it means to be content. Is contentment living a carefree existence without any care or worry in the world? Is it a life without pain or hardship? Is it going on holiday to a beach and having a nice tropical smoothie? It’s helpful to understand what something is not in order to have a more correct understanding of what something is.

Paul learned contentment - and we can gain a better picture of what that really looked like from what he shares in his letters in the Bible.

This article talks about 4 misconceptions we have in what contentment actually is, showing us what contentment is not.