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What a wonderful teaching that godliness with, contentment is great gain. That great gain does not come from the natural blessings of this life. It comes from the spiritual blessings that Christ outpours unto the church. The end result, fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life. If we have godliness with contentment then we look forward to this great blessing of the Kingdom of God, the great blessing that God will grant through Christ unto us where we can live a thousand years of peace. All will be equal there will be no problem. There will be no food shortage. There will be no sickness. There will be no death. There will only be these blessings that God has promised for ever- more.

 What a wonderful blessing that we can obtain, and the key to that is contentment. Our Lord showers upon the church many, many blessings. The blessings of the Holy Spirit lead us to be able to be reconciled with Christ. The blessings of Grace gives us contentment and peace within our lives. The blessings of forgiveness of our sins, the blessings of remission of those sins, but there are other blessings that came about that we tend to forget. The Scripture tells us when our Lord ascended to heaven He made His angels ministering spirits. The Apostle Paul wrote that do you not know that you have the blessing of an innumerable number of angels. These angels are there to help us, to guide us, to protect us throughout our life, and they are there at all times, an innumerable number to the church, and it is an added blessing we might say, because Christ wants each and every one of us to inherit the Kingdom of God. 

 If we wish these Angels to be with us, if we wish them to help us, and to work with us and for us, it is very simple. Our Lord said that if testify of Him in this life, He will testify of us before my Father and the angels. That does not mean to say we have to go out in the street and shout the Lord’s name. If we show contentment and the virtues of Christ in our lives it is a testimony.  He taught, ‘There is more rejoicing in heaven before His Father and the angels for one repenting sinner, than for ninety- nine righteous.’ When we come in repentance, our names are given to the angels. It is important for us for the angels to know us because if we read the Scriptures we will see that when our Lord returns He will send His angels into the harvest to gather up the elect from the four winds of the earth.  It is important that they know who we are. 

It is also important to remember according to Apostle Peter (1 Peter 1-12) that the angels also desire to learn of the mysteries and plan of God, so we must whenever possible attend church services to be seen by the angels who also gather to learn.

We can see that all of these blessings are all now given unto us and only available to us through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the head of the church, and we must respect them and never take any of the credit from Him if we are to be content.