No grandeur or style was need to make or add to the happiness of the humble home, where sat the mother and her three children at a plain, but substantial meal. Love for one another, and kindness even to the animals, prevailed, and they are content with their circumstances.
These are good traits, which may well be sought after, as they have their good results. Godliness added to contentment, is great gain. Mere contentment with the circumstances will give a measure of happiness for a certain length of time, that is, as long as the circumstances seem to be agreeable, but such conditions change, and then the happiness and contentment go, too. But if there is godliness with contentment, the changes of circumstances cannot alter the happiness, as they are accepted as coming from God’s all wise and loving hand.
We must first know the Lord Jesus, the gift of God’s love to us, as our own personal Saviour, and then we are able to say,
“He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give its all things?” Romans 8:32.
The measure of God’s love in giving His Son is so great that it should cause us to accept every circumstance from His hand, and as being the best thing for us; consequently, there is happiness and contentment, although we may feel the trial which the Lord is bringing us through. Do you know and enjoy that love?
“IF GOD SO LOVED US, WE OUGHT ALSO TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER.” 1 John 4:1.1.
ML 09/17/1939