This is the secret of being content: To learn and accept that we live daily by God's unmerited favor given through Christ, and that we can respond to any and every situation by His divine enablement through the Holy Spirit.

Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word.

God’s love to us cannot fail any more than His love to Christ can fail.

Jesus said, "Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:33). We must honestly face the question, "Am I willing to give up a certain practice or habit that is keeping me from holiness?" It is at this point of commitment that most of us fail. We prefer to dally with sin, to try to play with it a little without getting too deeply involved.

We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is always judgment.

It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent

Worship from the heart in times of adversity implies an attitude of humble acceptance on our part of God's right to do as He pleases in our lives.