 Recently my family and I were going through a department store and walked by one of those racks that hold magazines that show all the various toys that can be bought in the store. Of course our kids each grabbed one, even the two-year-old who can’t even read, and took them home, found a red pen, and began to circle all the items in the toy magazine they wanted for Christmas. On the one hand, this made shopping easy for us but, on the other hand, we wondered if we were simply encouraging covetousness/discontentment. With that thought in mind, and being in the throes of the Christmas season, I began thinking about what the Bible has to say about contentment.
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