Divine Contentment

There was never any man or woman so contented as a self-denying man or woman. No one ever denied himself as much as Jesus Christ did. He gave His cheeks to the smiters; He opened not His mouth; He was as a lamb when He was led to the slaughter; He made no noise in the street. He denied Himself above all and was willing to empty Himself, so He was the most contented that ever any was in the world. The nearer we come to learning to deny ourselves as Christ did, the more contented shall we be, and by knowing much of our own vileness, we shall learn to justify God. Whatever the Lord shall lay upon us, yet He is righteous, for He has to deal with a most wretched creature. A discontented heart is troubled because he has no more comfort, but a self-denying man rather wonders that he has as much as he has. “Oh,” says the one, “I have but a little”; “Aye,” says the man who has learned this lesson of self-denial, “but I rather wonder that God bestows upon me the liberty of breathing in the air, knowing how vile I am, and knowing how much sin the Lord sees in me.” That is the way of contentment, by learning self-denial.

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