Lessons from Lockdown: Content pt12 - Audio
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Normally this would be the time that the children flood away, but now is the time that they start to go to sleep. So all kids, you take a nap. When it's time for you to wake up, I'll let you know. We're winding down our summer series in Philippians. We've been doing lessons from lockdown, and well, this week is a pretty important lesson from lockdown. My buddy Scott, who was just on base there, his dad used to say the same thing all the time at work. He would say, he would say, when a reporter asked John D. Rockefeller how much money is enough, Rockefeller responded a little bit more. John D. Rockefeller was as rich as a human being could possibly be in his day, and yet he never, ever, ever was sad. He was never content. I watched a few of the Democratic National Convention speeches, and some from the Republican National Convention speeches, and I found, as I was listening, that the same themes kept getting hit over and over. So for example, in the DNC, the one thing that kept going was this. It was like America has the promise of justice, but we haven't reached it. And we need to keep striving. There needs to be more justice. And so if you were to ask someone from the Democratic National Convention how much justice is enough, they probably would say, well, a little bit more. In the Republican National Convention, I kept hearing over and over, you too can achieve your American dream. There is a better future for you. And they hammered this again and again. And the idea being that whatever it is that you believe your future could, it's right there if you work hard enough and play by the rules. And I imagine that if someone were to ask the Republicans, well, how many American dreams are enough, they'd probably say, well, just a few more. And that speaks to what's, I think, is a crisis of discontent in our country, in our culture, and possibly even the world. It might be that this is something that's relatively new for America, but I would suggest that most of our kids here. I think most of you have probably recognized in the lives of your family here at the church, at school, in the world, in your own hearts, how much Call of Duty is enough,
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The secret of contentment. What the apostle Paul learned and what we as believers can learn.