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Learning Contentment: A Study for Ladies of Every Age (Nancy Wilson)

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We tend to think being “stressed out” is a normal state of affairs, and that contentment means sitting back and just bottling things up. For the Christian, however, contentment is something we must apply, work at, and make our own in every circumstance, because anxiety and frustration are not neutral behaviors.

It is certainly easier to just go with our natural impulses when times are “annoying” or when times are very hard, but contentment is an important part of our Christian life. Even the apostle Paul had to “learn” contentment. So we shouldn’t wonder why we’re still in spiritual kindergarten—repeating the same lessons over and over again—if we haven’t given ourselves to study contentment.

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Learning Contentment

A Study for Ladies of Every Age

We tend to think being “stressed out” is a normal state of affairs, and that contentment means sitting back and just bottling things up. For the Christian, however, contentment is something we must apply, work at, and make our own in every circumstance.  Because anxiety and frustration are not neutral behaviors.

It is certainly easier to just go with our natural impulses when times are “annoying” or when times are very hard. But contentment is an important part of our Christian life. Even the apostle Paul had to “learn” contentment. So we shouldn’t wonder why we’re still in spiritual kindergarten—repeating the same lessons over and over again—if we haven’t given ourselves to study contentment.

Burroughs, Rutherford, Watson, and more

Thankfully, every test God gives on contentment is open book (even the pop quizzes!). In Learning Contentment, Nancy Wilson looks to the Bible and Puritans like Burroughs, Rutherford, Watson, and Spurgeon to help us develop the practical, spiritual strength and the perspective that comes from contentment’s deep satisfaction with the will of God.

This encouraging little book includes concise explanations, application questions and assignments that will involve and challenge everyone, and lots of biblical wisdom for individuals and groups.

Table of Contents

  1. The Father’s Contentment
  2. God’s Promises
  3. Discontent
  4. Godliness with Contentment
  5. The Mental Trap
  6. Envy
  7. A Change in Perspective
  8. Some Practical How-Tos
  9. Clay Pot Troubles
  10. Contentment in Grief
  11. Choosing Contentment
  12. Appendix & Bibliography

About the Author

Nancy Wilson has been a pastor’s wife and homemaker in Moscow, Idaho for more than thirty years. She is the author of numerous books, including Virtuous, Building Her House, Praise Her in the Gates and The Fruit of Her Hands. She is a regular contributor to various blogs. She and her husband Douglas have three children and seventeen grandchildren, which makes for some pretty crazy Sunday dinners.