This week we’ll be looking at the great evil of covetousness and the necessity of thankful contentment from Ephesians 5. In my “Voices From the Past” reading for this morning (an excellent devotional by the way- both volumes), I came across the following statement from Puritan Thomas Jacombe:
“God is a perfect, complete, comprehensive good. If man is once brought to possess God, he is satisfied, and all his desires answered. Having God, he has all, and thus contentment. We can be content under the least of creature comforts, but a man without God will not be content at all… [Contentment] is opposed to covetousness. The covetous never thinks he has enough; the more he has, the more he wants. Contentment suppresses these desires, and cheerfully enjoys what he has!” -Thomas Jacombe, from Voices From the Past Vol. 2
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