11 I do not say it because I have shortages, because I have learned to be content, whatever my situation may be. 12 I know how to live humbly and I know how to have abundance; In everything and for everything I am taught, both to be satiated and to be hungry, so that I may have plenty as well as to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Everyone in life has a position to take on in society, the lifestyle we live in and the way we live makes a teaching in our current condition.
Our heritage as believers can only be fully assumed if we put ourselves on God's side in the midst of adverse circumstances, sometimes risking personal well-being and life itself. The resource of faith eliminates fear and brings the freedom to "always rejoice." True faith never says, "I can not!" Such expression supposes disbelief.
There are people who have lost opportunities because they are lamenting and complaining about never having learned to content themselves in situations they have lived.
I am one of the people who firmly believe that everything we live in this world is the will of God. Although what happens to our surroundings hurts us, anguishes us, depresses us, we do not like it, I believe that if God allows it, it is because it is necessary.
Certainly I have learned to be content whatever the situation with a sure hope in the author and finisher of the... of the faith.
My look and your look should be that of a visionary who needs to put her eyes on Jesus
Currently we can look at the face of many people who reflect a position in their lives, their looks reveal very negative things, their faces express despair, afflictions, hatred, resentment, sadness, bitterness ... especially for the adversities that are living in my country venezuela, because they are people who have not been taught spiritually to be content in adverse situations and the circumstances are strong. However there is a special people a conglomerate of people that reflect the opposite, and although this population is very small, we can look on their faces a hope, we can look at their words contentment, brightness in their looks joy on their faces despite the terrible circumstances that we are living, these people are a people that took the initiative to be free through Jesus Christ and live hopeful, motivated in the author and finisher of the faith. We have learned to be content whatever the situation is for we trust in their promises and live by them.
In these difficult moments we live, I confess that the peace of God has not failed me, although sadly what looks around me discourages me, his joy in the midst of this adversity has not lacked his peace is greater.
He has taught me to be content whatever the situation is.
Beloved church, when we learn to be content, our perspective of life changes, you understand that the best teacher we have is Jesus who teaches us with his love.
That is why the apostle Paul says: I have learned to be content, whatever my situation may be.
The satisfaction of Paul's material needs was not the reason or the measure of his joy. For example, the Stoics used the word "content" to refer to a person who was self-sufficient in all circumstances. By contrast, although he uses the same word, Paul expressly rejects all self-sufficiency. His sufficiency is in Christ, in whose peace and purpose he rejoices, regardless of the circumstances.
In the same way we should rejoice in Jesus in spite of the circumstances, thinking that this is not the final destiny that God has prepared for us. God has a glorious purpose for our lives.
my position before life is to content myself in the purpose of God and to wait with joy for what He has promised with peace.
I can do everything in Chrit:: These phrases do not rely as much on personal abilities as on the will to allow the power of Christ to sustain him in difficulty and needs, and to magnify the joy of abundance and prosperity. Such faith is a stimulant to trust in the absolute sufficiency of Christ in all circumstances of life.
