“Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”~ Heb. 13:5
If there is a negative for every positive, then contentment has a flip-side. If being content with what we do have is on one side of the coin, then being content with what we do not have in on the other side. Contentment with the things we do not have is as important as being content with those things we do have; — even more, I think. Contentment with not having is a grand achievement.
Coveting what one doesn’t have, and in some cases shouldn’t have, brings great and continual frustration to one’s life. The story of King Midas teaches that getting what we want and not content with what we have can harm what we do have.
George Morrison writes, “Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because he would give the best, and man will not take it.”
Having God and being content with those things we do have ”is great gain,” says the scripture. Being discontent with God and the things we do have keeps us from enjoying, Him and them.
"My little in life is so sweet to me; for my God keeps pouring honey onto it!" (rds)