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What is the secret of true contentment?

In the final episode of Contentment in a Culture of Comparison, we look at what Paul meant when he said he had learned to be content whether he had little or plenty.

Contentment doesn't mean giving up our dreams, never wanting our circumstances to change, or refusing to enjoy God's blessings. It means learning to hold those blessings with open hands—without asking possessions, success, relationships, approval or influence to give us the identity, security and peace that can ultimately only be found in God.

We'll also ask a deeper question: What has my heart?

Because the secret of contentment isn't having everything we want.

It's discovering that Christ is enough in every season.

Comparison trains our eyes to notice what is missing. Gratitude teaches us to see what is already here.

In Part 3 of Contentment in a Culture of Comparison, we explore how gratitude can bring our attention back from somebody else's life to the goodness God has already placed in our own.

Because gratitude doesn't necessarily change our circumstances.

It changes what we notice.