{"id":2575,"date":"2010-03-03T12:12:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T20:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=2575"},"modified":"2010-03-03T12:13:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T20:13:16","slug":"true-contentedness-comes-from-wanting-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2010\/03\/03\/true-contentedness-comes-from-wanting-too-much","title":{"rendered":"True Contentment Comes From Wanting Too Much"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Puritan<\/a>I was skim\u00adming through the old Puri\u00adtan book The Rare Jew\u00adel of Chris\u00adt\u00adian Con\u00adtent\u00adment<\/a> by Jere\u00admi\u00adah Bur\u00adroughs when a pas\u00adsage caught my atten\u00adtion:<\/p>\n

God\u00adli\u00adness teach\u00ades us this mys\u00adtery, Not to be sat\u00adis\u00adfied with all the world for our por\u00adtion, and yet to be con\u00adtent with the mean\u00adest con\u00addi\u00adtion in which we are. When Luther was sent great gifts by Dukes and Princes, he refused them, and he says, \u2018I did vehe\u00adment\u00adly protest that God should not put me off so; \u2019tis not that which will con\u00adtent me.\u2019 A lit\u00adtle in the world will con\u00adtent a Chris\u00adt\u00adian for his pas\u00adsage. Mark, here lies the mys\u00adtery of it, A lit\u00adtle in the world will con\u00adtent a Chris\u00adt\u00adian for his pas\u00adsage, but all the world, and ten thou\u00adsand times more, will not con\u00adtent a Chris\u00adt\u00adian for his por\u00adtion.<\/strong> A car\u00adnal heart will be con\u00adtent with these things of the world for his por\u00adtion; and that is the dif\u00adfer\u00adence between a car\u00adnal heart and a gra\u00adcious heart. But a gra\u00adcious heart says, \u2018Lord, do with me what you will for my pas\u00adsage through this world; I will be con\u00adtent with that, but I can\u00adnot be con\u00adtent with all the world for my por\u00adtion.\u2019 So there is the mys\u00adtery of true con\u00adtent\u00adment. A con\u00adtent\u00aded man, though he is most con\u00adtent\u00aded with the least things in the world, yet he is the most dis\u00adsat\u00adis\u00adfied man that lives in the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Empha\u00adsis mine. Wow.<\/p>\n

A lit\u00adtle before this, Bur\u00adroughs said:<\/p>\n

A man who has learned the art of con\u00adtent\u00adment is the most con\u00adtent\u00aded with any low con\u00addi\u00adtion that he has in the world, and yet he can\u00adnot be sat\u00adis\u00adfied with the enjoy\u00adment of all the world. He is con\u00adtent\u00aded if he has but a crust, but bread and water, that is, if God dis\u00adpos\u00ades of him, for the things of the world, to have but bread and water for his present con\u00addi\u00adtion, he can be sat\u00adis\u00adfied with God\u2019s dis\u00adpos\u00adal in that; yet if God should give unto him King\u00addoms and Empires, all the world to rule, if he should give it him for his por\u00adtion, he would not be sat\u00adis\u00adfied with that. Here is the mys\u00adtery of it: though his heart is so enlarged that the enjoy\u00adment of all the world and ten thou\u00adsand worlds can\u00adnot sat\u00adis\u00adfy him for his por\u00adtion; yet he has a heart qui\u00adet\u00aded under God\u2019s dis\u00adpos\u00adal, if he gives him but bread and water.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I was skim\u00adming through the old Puri\u00adtan book The Rare Jew\u00adel of Chris\u00adt\u00adian Con\u00adtent\u00adment by Jere\u00admi\u00adah Bur\u00adroughs when a pas\u00adsage caught my atten\u00adtion: God\u00adli\u00adness teach\u00ades us this mys\u00adtery, Not to be sat\u00adis\u00adfied with all the world for our por\u00adtion, and yet to be con\u00adtent with the mean\u00adest con\u00addi\u00adtion in which we are. When Luther was \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cTrue Con\u00adtent\u00adment Comes From Want\u00adi\u00adng Too Much\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional-nuggets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-Fx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2583,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions\/2583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}