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Contentment – Charles Spurgeon

“Now, contentment is one of the flowers of heaven, and if we would have it, it must be cultivated. It will not grow in us by nature, it is the new nature alone  that can produce it, and even then we must be specially careful and watchful that we maintain and cultivate the grace which God has sown in it. Paul says, “I have learned to be content,” as much as to say he did not know how at one time. It cost him some pains to attain to the mystery of that great truth. No doubt he sometimes thought he had learned, and then broke down. We, my brethren, might well be willing to endure Paul’s infirmities, and share the cold dungeon with him, if we too might by any means attain unto such a degree of contentment. Do not indulge, any of you, the silly notion that you can be contented without learning, or learn without discipline.”

“Saints have no hell but what they suffer here on earth, sinners will have no heaven but what they have here in this poor troublous world. We have our sufferings here and our glory afterwards, you may have your glory here, but you will have your sufferings forever and ever. God grant you new hearts, and right spirits, a living faith in a living Jesus, and then I would say to you as I have said to the rest—man, in whatsoever state you are, be content.”