When the heart of man has nothing to do but to be busy about creature-comforts, every little thing troubles him; but when the heart is taken up with the weighty things of eternal life, the things of here below that disquieted it before are things now of no consequence to him in comparison with the other-how things fall out here is not much regarded by him, if the one thing that is necessary is provided for.
The above is a quote from The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment by Jeremiah Burroughs. One of the ways that Christ teaches us contentment is to open our understanding to things that are vastly more important than our everyday affairs and busyness about our necessities and comforts. The Christian who is a scholar in Christ's school of contentment sees clearly to order his life around the weightiest of matters first, leaving less important matters to their rightful spot.
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