Contentment is defined
as the quality or state of being contented.
Being contented is being satisfied with one’s own possessions, status,
or situation. Kuntento daw yung taong masaya
sa kanyang mga tinatangkilik o mga ari-arian, kalagayan, sitwasyon, status at
kinatatayuan sa lipunan.
Ano naman ang
kinalaman ng contentment sa lahat ng ito: Working hard, investing, saving,
giving to God, giving to God’s workers, and giving to the needy?
Sabi sa Hebrews 13:5,
“Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have,
because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
Kailangan daw ay malaya tayo mula sa pag-ibig sa salapi. At kailangan, matuto
tayo na maging kuntento sa kung anuman ang ating ari-arian, o kung ano ang nasa
ating mga kamay.
For the Lord said,
“Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.” A lot of people read this
phrase: “Keep your lives free from the love of money” as saying na huwag ka
nang magtrabaho, wala ka dapat ambisyon, huwag ka nang magsikap na umasenso, at
ganyan ka na lang. Hindi yata iyon ang tamang interpretasyon dito. Hindi
sinabing “keep yourselves free from the love of money.”
Sinasabi nga, “Love of
money is a root of all evil.” Hindi sinabing, “Money is a root of all evil.”
This doesn’t mean that we should be free from productive enterprise. It doesn’t
mean that we should be free from investing, free from saving. Ang sinasabi
dito, we should be free from wrongdoing just for the sake of money. Money can
be a good tool to help people. Money can be used to make the afflicted
comfortable and to buy freedom for slaves.
It is the love of money that the Lord does not like to be in our lives.
From the Book:
Siksik, Liglig at
Umaapaw.
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