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I'm Lonane Laura, and thanks for joining me tonight as we listen to Godliness with contentment.

Tonight, we'll journey through a bedtime meditation on godliness and contentment.

What higher gain can we possess?

We will be searching through scriptures on this theme, in coming back again and again

to 1st Timothy 6 verse 6.

The passage tells us,

but godliness with contentment is great gain,

for we brought nothing into the world,

and we can take nothing out of it.

Nearing the end of his fruitful and history-making life on earth, the mature apostle Paul is

writing to his young protege, Timothy, encouraging the young man to pursue what really matters

in the grand scheme of life on earth. He's telling Timothy not to have his eyes set on earthly things, nor to seek worldly gain,

because no human can take the worldly things with them into glory.

Instead, in all of his advice to the younger missionary, Paul urges Timothy to put his effort

in time and heart and prayers into the eternal things, the things that he will carry

with him into glory, that being the lives and souls of those people

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