• “I have learned,
in whatever state I am,
therewith to be content.” •
— Philippians 4:11 •
These words show us that contentment
is not a natural propensity of man.
“Ill weeds grow apace.”
Covetousness, discontent, and murmuring
are as natural to man
as thorns are to the soil.
We need not sow
thistles and brambles;
they come up naturally enough,
because they are
indigenous to earth…