Blessings Behind Bars: Contentment Beats Competition

Have you ever been on a team but felt like your teammates were your rivals? The Apostle Paul experienced a similar sense of hostility from a portion of his Christian brothers and sisters when he began planting churches, but he knew how to keep a smile on his face through the adversity. How? By practicing contentment when others wanted competition. Paul knew that his contentment in Jesus would keep him grounded whenever someone would try to uproot him through their competitive edge. In Paul’s mind, he could find joy not in his relationships but with knowing that the Gospel of Jesus was advancing through the world.