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Hold Your Blessings with an Open Hand - Daily Hope with Rick Warren - August 31, 2024

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Hold Your Blessings with an Open Hand
By Rick Warren

There is great gain in godliness combined with contentment, for we brought nothing into the world, so that we can take nothing out of it.” 1 Timothy 6:6-7 (NRSV)

God is more interested in your character than your comfort. Hes not going to give you things if you havent learned the principle of contentment first.

Contentment is not a lack of ambition. Its not a lack of goals. Contentment means your happiness doesn’t depend on your circumstances.

How do you eliminate discontentment? For one thing, stop comparing. We compare everything—clothes, houses, cars, intelligence, even husbands and wives.

Whenever you compare, youre going to feel discontentment. And so you’ve got to learn to stop comparing yourself to others.

Paul says in Philippians 4:12, I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation” (NIV). Contentment does not come naturally; it is something we have to learn. If we do this, God promises to meet all our financial needs.

The Bible also says, There is great gain in godliness combined with contentment, for we brought nothing into the world, so that we can take nothing out of it” (1 Timothy 6:6-7 NRSV).

One of the greatest secrets in learning to be content is to realize that you dont really own anything. Its all on loan to you for a few decades! You didn’t bring a single thing into this world, and youre not going to carry anything out of it, either. You just get to use it while youre here on earth.

The Bible calls that stewardship. You are the manager or steward of what God allows you to have while youre here, but its not actually yours. When you understand that youre just a manager of the blessings God allows in your life and you hold them with an open hand, you wont be uptight about losing them.

So what if you lose things? God can turn off one faucet and turn on another just as easily. Learn to be content because things dont last. God is more interested in your character than your comfort.

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