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Thanks for joining us. So we are in Part 2 of a series
called Enough Is Enough. Who's ever heard of Malcolm
Gladwell's book Outliers? Someone give me hands.
If you've heard of Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers, three
of you. Wow, this is amazing.
So this is a great book. This is actually, the fact that
we've never heard of this is kind of indicative of our
culture and where people's hearts are.
So Gladwell's argument in the book Outliers is that it takes
about 10,000 hours to become a master at anything.
So if you're going to become really good at something, it
takes about 10,000 hours to do it.
We tend to think in our culture that we should just kind of wake
up and be good at something. Like, you know, we should just
be like, I started doing this and I've been at it a week and I
can't believe I'm not getting better, right?
And that's just kind of how our hearts work.
We kind of think we want immediate satisfaction.
We are the microwave culture. I mean, you know who grew up in
the old days where you had to put your popcorn in a little
dish and you had to put it on the stove and you waited and
waited and waited and waited over like 20 minutes.
You got popcorn and now you put popcorn in the microwave.
And how fast do you have popcorn, right?
Two minutes, you got popcorn, right?
So we kind of live in a culture where everything's instant.
And Gladwell's argument is simply this, that mastery isn't
natural. Mastery is not natural.
I also love the book by George Leonard titled Mastery, which
also makes the same argument that it takes a long time to
become a master at anything. And this idea that we're just
not automatically good at something that we have to
practice and that it takes time and it and it's mastery over a
long period of time. That idea helps us with our
passage today and helps us with this, the topic that we've been
talking about over this series so far, and this idea of
contentment. Because a lot of us are
malcontent, a lot of us are discontent.
We don't like this about our lives.
We don't like this that about our lives.
And we want this to change. And we often think if this
situation would change, then my life would be happier and I
would be more content. We tend to think that
contentment is a personality trait or something that just
happens that, you know, if you're, if you're spiritual
enough, if you have enough faith, if you believe enough,
then you will have contentment. But Paul says the opposite in
our text today. He actually agrees with Gladwell
and and George Leonard that contentment is something that
you master and learn over time. And so if you're a young person
and, and you feel malcontent and you feel discontent, that's OK.
You're still in the learning process of how to be content.
And if you're an old person and you've yet to learn how to be
content, then it's getting late in the game for you.
OK? It's getting late because it is
something that you learn over time.
Contentment is learned. It's something that God grows in
US over time. It's not something we can just
absorb. You can't read about it.
You can't hear a sermon about it.
You learn it. So we're going to read a text,
Philippians chapter 4, verses 10 through 13, and then we'll keep
talking about this idea of contentment being something we
learn Philippians 410 through 13.
Now Philippians, ironically enough, we're talking about
contentment in the letter to the church at Philippi, which
remember, Philippians is just a letter.
It's just Paul literally sitting down like an e-mail and like
writing his friends at Philippi and he's giving them some
instruction. And this is what's crazy.
This section we're going to read today is about contentment.
And Paul is actually writing this letter from does anybody
know prison from house arrest? He's writing this letter from
prison from house arrest. So this guy doesn't have
freedom. He can't just go out and do what
he wants to do. He's he's locked down.
And this, these are the words. These are the words he says from
a place where most of us would say, I'm not happy right now.
I'm not satisfied. Life is not good.
And this is what he says. Verse 10 of Philippians chapter
4. If you have your Bibles, go
there. If you have your look at it
there, Philippians 4, chapter 10, verse 13, this is what it
says. I rejoiced greatly in the Lord
that at last you renewed your concern for me.
Indeed, you were concerned, but you had no opportunity to show
it. In other words, the Philippian
believers had sent him some money.
They'd sent him some resources, which is always a good thing
when you're in jail, by the way, put money on my account, right?
And so like, like, you know, it's it's something that Paul
needed. He needed some money.
They send him some money. She's like, I'm thankful that
you guys showed concern for me. Verse 11.
I'm not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to
be everybody say content. Content, for I've learned to be
content whatever the circumstances.
I know what it is to be a need and I know what it is to have
plenty. I have learned the secret of
being content in every in any and every situation where
they're well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in
wants. I can do all this through Him
who gives me strength. So if you're a note taker, and I
know some of you are note takers, there are three ideas
that we're going to unpack from this text, right from the
verses, verse 11, verse 12, and verse 13.
And here are the three ideas. Number one, verse 11,
contentment is learned, Contentment is learned #2 verse
12, Contentment is independent of circumstances.
Contentment is independent of circumstances.
So if you write notes, write that down #3 verse 13, the
secret, the secret of contentment.
The secret of contentment is found in dependence on Christ.
So there we go. Those are the three.
Dependence on Christ is where the secret of contentment is.
Number 3 #2 contentment is independent of circumstances and
#1 contentment is learned. So let's unpack this idea of
contentment is learned. We tend to think that if you're
a believer in Jesus, if you're a church person, if you're a God
person, you tend to think if, if minute, why am I so discontent?
Why am I so malcontent? Why can't I be happy with my
life if I could just get enough faith?
Maybe I don't believe in God enough.
Maybe I don't have enough faith then if if I had more faith, I
would be content. But Paul gives us a different
perspective. Let me just reread verse 11 to
you. He says I'm not saying this
because I'm in need and listen to what he says.
Comma for I have, what's it say learned?
Everybody say that again, I have what learned?
I have learned to be content. Whatever the circumstances.
When we learn something, what are we doing?
We're acquiring the skills, we're taking the process.
If you sat down to learn piano, you would not be very proficient
in the first week or the first month.
It would take you quite some time.
And this is what Paul is saying. This word learn is good news for
your souls, man. It's good news if you're a
person who feels discontent about life, if you're a person
who deals with malcontent, contentness, this word is good
news. We learn contentment.
See, contentment isn't something that you just have or don't
have. It's something you grow into.
It's a spiritual skill that you form over time through
repetition and experience. Now, there's a guy named Thomas
Watson who was a Puritan that lived in England in the 1600s.
Yes, I'm quoting a guy from the 1600s, all right, because he
wrote a book literally about contentment, a whole book about
contentment. The whole book is about
contentment. It's called the art of divine
contentment. And you can get it on just like
Google it use PDF. It's free.
So you can read this today. Like you can read and I would be
impressed if you read this because like it's, it's you have
to be pretty smart. Read this stuff.
All right, So I mean, I have struggled reading.
I didn't read the whole book. I just was perusing it.
Listen to what Thomas Watson said in The Art of Divine Commit
Contentment about Paul's words in this verse.
He says Paul did not come naturally by it.
In other words, by contentment. Paul did not come naturally by
it, but he had learned it. It cost him many a prayer and
tear. It was taught him by the Spirit.
Contentment isn't instant, it isn't automatic.
And most of the time, listen, look at that quote.
Most of the time when we learn it, we learn it through
struggle, through tear, through prayer.
We we learn it in difficult situations, we learn it through
necessity. There are so many stories of
people who are going through difficult seasons of life,
challenging times in their in their walk with God, going
through dark seasons of the soul, if you will.
And they will tell you, like when we look at their situation,
maybe they've lost a loved one, maybe they're walking through
some great tragedy. We look at their situation and
we say, how could God do this to them?
Why did this terrible thing happen to them?
They surely hate God now. There's no way that they could
be close to God. But if you go and sit down with
the person walking through the dark night of their soul,
walking through the difficult season of their life, they will
tell you that in this dark season I'm walking through, God
has met me and comforted me. He has walked with me.
He has taught my heart contentment.
He has soothed me, He has comforted me.
And this is the thing about contentment.
Contentment is something that we have to learn.
And ironically, we oftentimes learn it out of necessity.
We learn it out of looking at a circumstance and saying, well,
there's nothing I can do here. I can't change the circumstance.
I can't make it different. I can either be content in this
moment or I can end my life. And so people figure out, they
begin to learn contentment from God.
Contentment works this way. We don't learn it by reading
about it, We don't learn it by wishing for it, but we learn it
by walking through real situations of our lives.
And some people when they hit hardship, honestly, I've been a
pastor for a long time, When they hit hardship, when they
come up against something hard, they just give up.
They just throw their hands in the air and they just say, well,
life's too hard. I'm done.
I'm they deconstruct away from their faith, They walk away from
God, they walk away from the local church, They say, this is
too hard. There's no way any of this is
true. But instead, if we looked at
hardship and difficulty and we said, hey, this is a place where
God might meet me. Let me lean into this moment and
see if God will show up and move in my life and grow something in
me. And one of the things often
times that God will grow in you during difficult seasons of your
life is contentment. And I think this is what Paul is
saying is that hey guys, I have learned contentment.
I've learned to be content in any and every circumstance.
I've learned this because I've been through some good stuff and
I've been through some bad stuff.
I've had to walk through some dark days and I've, and what has
happened in those dark days is God has met me in those places.
So here's the deal. Contentment is something you
learn, and if the apostle Paul had to learn how to be content,
if his heart had to had to learn how to be settled and be at
peace, then do not think that you too will also have to learn
to be content. In other words, you're not going
to stumble into it. You're not going to have enough
faith, you're not going to go to church enough, you're not going
to read your Bible enough. It's going to be through
experiences, learning to trust God and walk with God that He
teaches you contentment. He teaches you through time.
Paul learned it through prayer, through tears, through pressure,
through difficulty, and the Spirit did the work in him.
And the same is true for us. So that's number one.
Contentment is something we learned #2 Paul shows us that
our contentment is independent of circumstances.
Our contentment is independent of circumstances.
Let's read verse 12. Because we tend to think if I
could just change the circumstance, then I would be
happy, right? But look at verse 12.
It says I know what it is to be a need and I know what it is to
have plenty. I have learned the secret of
being content. I've learned the secret of being
content in any and every situation where they're well fed
or hungry, where they're living in plenty or in Walt.
So here's what Paul is saying. Paul is saying, hey, I've
experienced the full spectrum of circumstances, man.
I've had plenty. I've had where the cupboards are
full and the, the, the resources are overflowing.
I got more than I need and I've had it where the covers are
empty and the bank account is dry and I don't know how I'm
going to pay the bills. I've experienced it in both
extremes. And I'm going to tell you, Paul
says, Paul says, listen, in the circumstances where things were
great and I had plenty that did not inflate my contentment.
In other words, I wasn't more content because I had a bigger
bank account or because I had more food in the pantry.
And then he says, hey, listen, I've had it where I didn't have
enough, where I where I was short and the covers were bare
and the bank account was empty. And you know what?
That did not diminish my contentment.
And what he's saying is whatever the circumstance, whether it's
having plenty or having a little, those circumstances did
not determine the condition of my heart.
My heart was content apart from whatever the circumstances were
going on around me. So contentment is not dependent
upon your circumstances. It's independent of your
circumstances. His contentment and yours too,
doesn't have to rise and fall with your circumstances.
You don't have to be like happy this week because things are
going good and unhappy this week because things are going bad.
Does anybody live that life? It's a terrible way to live your
life. It's a because here's the thing,
circumstances change. They move, they they change.
See, Paul gives us a message that is better than the message
of our culture. What is the message of our
culture? If you're not happy, change your
circumstance. If you want to be happy, change
your circumstance, change your situation.
That's the message of our culture, but that's not the
message of the gospel. The message of the gospel says
contentment is independent of circumstances.
What we know if you live long enough, especially once you
know, if you, if you live but long enough and you and those of
you who are maybe over 45 or over 50 / 40, you could set up
and say this. You could say, hey, yeah, there
were, there was a time of my life when I thought if I change
that circumstance, I would be happy.
And if I change this circumstance, I would be happy.
And without fail, what happened was eventually I realized
wherever I went, there I was. Wherever I went, there I was.
And so, so the, the culture says our hearts say change your
circumstance and be happy. But Paul says the circumstances
can change, but contentment can remain steady in our hearts.
Now, let me have a quick caveat here, because I, I don't want
you to walk away going. So should we not pursue changing
our circumstances? No, that's absolutely not what
I'm saying. There are times when you look at
your circumstances and you ought to change them.
And I think there are rules around them.
Like, hey, would changing the circumstance dishonor God?
Well, if it would dishonor God, then I don't want to change the
circumstance. You know, like that happens
whenever I talk to spouses where one spouse is saying to me, you
know what, I'm just not happy being married to this spouse
anymore. I want to find a new one.
And I'm like, OK, well slow down.
OK, slow down because we got to talk about that a little bit.
Because if it, if you think just like changing that one out for a
new one is going to solve your problems.
The first problem you're starting out with is you got a
massive moment of dishonoring the Lord in your choice.
Like you just you're dishonoring God in your choice.
So, so if, if changing your circumstance doesn't dishonor
the Lord, right, there's freedom there.
OK. And so, so I don't want you to
think that that Paul is suggesting that that it's OK to
have a stagnant life. Do you ask the questions, would
this change a circumstance? Would it dishonor God?
No, it wouldn't dishonor God. OK, well, now you have some
freedom here, but then you ask the question, do am I thinking
changing the circumstance will make me happy?
If that's if, if the answer to that question is yes, if you're
going why I'm going to change the circumstance, it's not going
to dishonor the Lord and I think it's going to make me happy.
Now you're setting yourself up for a terrible mess because
you're going to find out that it's not going to make you happy
in the long run. So if you need, if you look at a
a circumstance or a situation and you think I should change
this, here's my advice to you. My advice to you is first pursue
contentment in the Lord. Pursue having contentment with
Christ. Looking at the situation you're
currently in and looking at it and going, this is not
determining my happiness either way, good or bad, Find
contentment in the Lord. Pursue that first and then from
a place of that contentment prayer and ask Jesus to lead you
in whatever change you're considering making.
So maybe you're thinking about changing jobs right now and
you're like, I want to change jobs.
Or maybe you're thinking about changing schools, or maybe
you're thinking about changing majors or whatever the changes
you're thinking about doing is like, I'm going to make this
change and it's going to make things better.
The the advice I would give you is first go, Hey, don't think
it's going to make things better.
It might make things everybody say worse.
It might make things worse. It it just might get making it a
lot worse. So first say, am I, am I content
in the Lord? Do I have peace with where I'm
at? And then from that place, pray
and ask for wisdom about the change of circumstance you want
to make. Now here's the truth.
You can change some circumstances in your life.
If you have a if you're at a job where people are abusive and
it's terrible, then you pray and you say, you know what, the
Lord, this isn't healthy for me. I'm going to seek a change here.
Will you guide me in that? There are some circumstances
that you have power over and you can change in your life, but
let's be honest, the majority of circumstances that are happening
to you and happening to me, we have no control over.
We just have no control over the circumstances that we face.
The world is moving around you at breakneck speed and it is
never asking your permission for how its movements are affecting
you. Other people are making
decisions that are impacting your life right now.
Circumstances are always moving and changing, and you are always
being affected by them. And the reality is we have very
little control over our circumstances.
I cannot control the things that might happen to me.
But here's a principle for your life.
I can always control how I respond to the things that
happened to me. I can always respond to how I
respond to the things that happened to me.
Warren Weirsby wrote a book about facing challenging
circumstances, and in that book he had a chapter on contentment.
Listen to what Warren wrote. He said real contentment must
come from within you and I cannot change or control the
world around us, but we can change and control the world
within us. We can't.
We have no control over what
people are doing around us, but we do have control over how
we're responding to it, how we're reacting to it.
And Paul tells us exactly tells us exactly how to respond.
You see, there may be a storm all around you.
There may be craziness happening in your life right now.
If it isn't today, it may be next week.
Whatever that storm is that's happening in your life, your
heart can still sing with joy and confidence because
contentment does not come from a life that's finally easy.
You do know looking for a life that's finally easy is a waste
of time, right? Contentment does not come from a
life that's finally easy, but from a heart that is firmly
anchored. And Paul tells us exactly where
to anchor our heart. He says in the middle of verse
12, I have learned the secret of being content in any and every
situation. What's the anchor for your
heart? Where do you anchor your heart
in that secret? I have learned the secret of
being content in any and every situation.
So Paul says there's a mystery. The Greek word there is mystery.
I have learned the mystery. I've learned the mystery, the,
the secret of, of contentment. And that's where you need to put
your anchor if you want to experience contentment.
Not in getting your circumstances right, not in
getting just the right job, just the right spouse, just the right
house, just the right car, just the right clothes, whatever.
And then I'll be happy, like killing all of that away from
you and saying, no, there's a secret to contentment.
And this is what Paul is saying. And that's where I need to
anchor my heart. So what is the secret to
contentment? And here's #3 for this morning,
the secret of contentment is found in the dependence on
Christ. Dependence on Christ.
Look again at verse 13. Verse 13 says, I can do all this
through him who gives me strength.
Now we got leave this up here for a second, please, Chris,
because we got to talk about this verse for a moment.
This is a verse that has been mistreated in many ways.
The translation of this verse in the NIV is very good.
This is my In my opinion, the NIV Bot 2011 has some problems
and it has some good things about it.
I mean, they're just like all translations that are good and
bad. This translation of this verse
in the NIV 2011, this is the best translation of this verse
in all English translations. There's not a better one.
This is it like this is the best translation.
And the reason is is because of that simple pronoun, I can do
all this. Do you see that I can do all
this. That word makes this the best
translation of this verse. Most translations of this verse
say something like this. I can do all things through
Christ through him who gives me strength.
I can do all things through him who gives me strength.
And while that sounds really good on a coffee mug and it will
sell all day long on AT shirt and I think Tim Tebow put it on
his eyes when he played football.
That translation. I can do all things through him.
Who gives me strength is missing the context of what Paul has
been saying up to this verse. It's too broad.
It's it's it's it's not it's not true that too harsh.
It's just the word this is a pronoun and the translators, I
can do all this. They chose this as opposed to
all things they chose the pronoun this to help us capture
the context of the whole section.
Now English one O 1A pronoun always has a what starts with an
A who knows it anybody and to antecedent, right, A pronoun
always has an antecedent. You're all like, I don't know
why I'm here right now. I didn't know I was coming to
English class. I actually taught college
English for a little while, guys.
So, you know, buckle up. All right, so we may need, we
may need to have some English class around here.
Nobody knew what an antecedent was.
So every pronoun has an antecedent or what is an
antecedent? That is the antecedent is the
idea or the word that the pronoun is pointing back to.
The pronoun is standing in the place of the antecedent, right?
And so the pronoun is saying, Hey, this is the word.
This is pointing back to something.
And So what is the pronoun this pointing back to?
Well, in this case, this is pointing the word.
This is pointing back to verse 12.
So let's reread verse 13. I can do all this through him
who gives me strength. I can do all this.
Well, what what is it? What is the this, what is it
that you can do, Paul? We'll go back to verse 12.
I can do all this verse 12. I have learned the secret of
being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or
hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.
And so verse 12 is Paul saying, I have learned how to be
content. I've learned how to whether
things are going great or things are going bad, it doesn't
matter. I've learned how to be at peace.
I've learned how to be confident in God.
And OK, I've learned all this back to verse 13.
How have you learned it? Well, I've learned all this.
I can do all this through how? Through him who gives me
strength. You see how we read the Bible.
This is how you read the Bible. You slow down a little bit, all
right, You slow down a little bit and you read the Bible and
you say, OK, what's actually what's actually the context
here? If you when you read verse 12
and you read verse 13, there's no way Paul can be saying, I can
do all things. I can go to the moon through
Christ who gives me strength. There's no way Paul could be
saying that. There's no way He could be
saying that. What he's saying is I have the
secret of being content, no matter how bad my circumstances
are. And that secret is the strength
of Christ. I am dependent on Jesus Christ.
He's the one who gives me strength.
The word. This in verse 13 is the key to
unlocking the secret of contentment.
This equals being content in every and all circumstances.
Paul is saying I can stay content in all situations
because Jesus gives me strength. So write that down.
If you're a note taker, write that down.
I can stay content in all situations because Jesus gives
me strength. In other words, contentment
isn't something I muster up. It isn't something I do, you
know, just being determined to do it.
It's something that this is important.
Contentment is something that Christ produces in me.
And this is true for everything related to your sanctification.
Fancy word that just means becoming more like Christ.
Everything related to your sanctification is not something
you muster up. It's not something you do.
You don't convince yourself to be more obedient.
You don't convince yourself to be more righteous.
You don't convince yourself to be more content.
You don't willpower your way into that.
What we do is we depend on Christ to do the work in our
hearts and to change us from the inside out so that we become
people who are content in any in every circumstance.
This is why learning contentment can oftentimes take a lifetime.
Because Christ is still working on you and working on me.
He's working on you. I say this when I do something
stupid. I say something stupid or out
like a jerk. Anybody ever out like a jerk?
Come on, husbands, don't lie. Don't don't make your wife get
up and testify. We will hand her a mic in a
minute. I will say, well, you know,
Jesus is still working on me. He's still working on me.
He's still, he's still bringing from within me a new type of
person. I have a vision of a future self
that I want to be true of me. This, this, this type of older
man that I want to be. And I'm not there, but I want to
be like this man. And I know that I can't muster
that up. It's the same thing with
contentment. If I'm going to be content, it
will be because I'm dependent upon Christ doing this work in
me. Warren Wisby again has this
great quote. Listen to what Warren said.
This is beautiful. He says contentment is having
that spiritual artesian well within you so that you don't
have to run to the broken cisterns of this world to get
what you need. The power of Christ and the
inner man is all we need for the demands of life.
Isn't that beautiful? The world is full of broken
cisterns. The job, the money, the new car,
the new toys. If everything would just work
out, even things that matter deeply to you like this is this
is a hard thing to say. But if, if, if everything was,
you know, if everybody I love was healthy, then I would be
happy. And why that feels so true.
That's still a broken cistern. It's easy for us to call like
new boats and new cars a broken cistern.
But even perfectly healthy kids and a perfectly healthy spouse
and to think if I had that, I would just be happy.
Even that is a broken cistern. The only thing that satisfies is
the artesian well of the presence of Christ in your life,
the dependence of Christ in your everyday life.
That's the only thing that brings contentment.
And so here's the secret. Ready Christ is enough.
No matter what you face, Christ strengthens you to endure what
you never thought you could endure.
He strengthens you to endure circumstances that you never
thought you could endure and endure them with contentment, to
endure them with a song in your heart.
Christ sustains you when circumstances fall apart.
Christ stabilizes you. When your life is unstable,
Christ is there for you. So when Paul says I can do all
this through Christ, he's giving us permission to say the same
thing. I can face this, I can walk
through this. I can endure this because Christ
in me is stronger than what is happening around me.
Dependence on Christ is not weakness.
It's actually the only path that you have to lasting and lasting
and strong contentment. It's the only path you have is
dependence on Christ. So today when you hold these 3
verses together, the picture becomes beautifully clear.
Contentment is learned. So don't be discouraged.
Contentment is independent of circumstances.
So don't wait for life to settle down.
Don't wait for things to get right.
If you wait for the perfect situation to feel content,
you're never going to experience it.
Paul learned to be content in plenty and in one.
Contentment was not attached to his situation #3 contentment is
enabled by Christ. It is in your dependence upon
Christ. So you cannot produce
contentment on your own. We talked about this last week
that the majority of Eastern religions and mysticism says if
you want to have contentment, then just kill all desire in
your heart. If you have no desire, then
you'll be content. And what we're learning as a
church and as Jesus followers is actually what the Gospel calls
you to do is not to kill your desire, but to redirect your
desire to the person of Jesus Christ.
And that he is the only place your heart can find home is when
you are depended upon Christ. Your strength is never enough.
Your willpower is never enough, but Jesus Christ in your heart
leading you is enough. His strength is your source of
contentment. And here's the hope for everyone
of you and for me. If you want to learn Paul's
secret, if you want to figure this out, pray.
It sounds so simple. Pray consistently.
Pray constantly. Pray to quote the Bible without
ceasing. Pray.
Talk to Jesus like you talk to a friend.
Just talk to him. Tell him what you're happy
about. Tell him what you're not happy
about. Tell him when you're upset.
Tell him when you're good. Just pray.
Lean into Christ. Lean into Him, walk with him,
look, listen for him, depend on Him, Trust Him with what you
have and with what you don't have.
Let him reshape your life and friend.
When Christ becomes your source, your strength and your
satisfaction, you will discover what Paul discovered.
I can do all of this. I can live content no matter
what. Through Him gives me strength.
He is my source, and if I don't lean into Him, if I don't know
him, if I'm not walking with Christ, no wonder I'm
discontent. No wonder I'm malcontent.
Because He's the only source of contentment.
He's the secret in any attempt to be content without Him will
always fall short. Will you stand with me?
And I'm going to say a blessing over you.
So, my brothers and sisters, if you want to close your eyes and
receive this blessing over you, that would be great.
May you go today with hearts that rest in Christ alone.
May His strength be your sufficiency, His presence your
peace, and His love your satisfaction.
As you face plenty or need this week, may you remember that
Christ is enough for you and that through Him you can't do
all this. Go in grace, the strength and
the contentment of Jesus. Amen.
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