What does contentment mean in the Bible? 1 Timothy 6:6 tells us, “Godliness with contentment is great gain.” I suspect Paul, who penned these words to his young protégé Timothy, would be very confused by the way in which we Christians often use the word “contentment.” The Greek word for contentment in this verse is autarkeia, and it means that a person is resting in a place of safety and security in their lives. The context for this verse is a discussion of the greed of false teachers and the lure of our own acquisitive desires. Godly contentment says “enough” instead of spouting Christianized versions of “I want more.” I appreciate the irony of Paul saying that godly contentment is the only “more” for which we should be aiming. Photo Credit: Unsplash/Aaron Burden "I don’t have contentment all figured out." I don’t have contentment all figured out. When we lost our home to a short sale in 2012, the bank gave us ten days’ notice to vaca...
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