Art of Divine Contentment, 5

We continue with our fifth lecture through our devotion based on Thomas Watson’s book, The Art of Divine Contentment. Tonight’s lesson began chapter 10, “Use III: A Suasive to Contentment”. This long chapter will be covered for a number of weeks in parts: tonight, we looked at Watson’s answers to the first three apologies (or arguments) some Christians give against contentment and to justify discontentment: 1: “I have lost a child”; 2: “I have a great part of my estate strangely melted away, and trading begins to fail”; 3: “It is sad with me in my relations”.

A short closing piece by Phillips Brooks was so appreciated that it is shared here for reference:

Do not pray for easy lives!
Pray to be stronger men.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers.
Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle,
but you shall be a miracle.
(Source: When God Writes Your Love Story, by Eric and Leslie Ludy, p. 173, lent to Pastor by his eldest daughter.)