6 Foods That Reveal the Secrets to Being Content

How do you learn to be content in all things? 

Can you grow in contentment and be satisfied in Him daily?

From these Bible verses about food, learn a simple way to improve in contentment every day!

 

Encouraging Bible Message - Understanding Bible Verses about Food for the Soul

 

It's time for another taste and see moment, and that's where we go into God's word. We read the stories and we see how God uses food to teach us a story or a lesson. Because so many circumstances in scripture were dealt with the fact of food for God to get our attention. 

 

Recognizing Bible Verses about Food and Satisfaction

 

Here’s something I want you to try with your family members at the dinner table, when you read the scripture together, and if you don't, I challenge you to start because your family will be changed in ways food could never change. 

And as you read the stories and scripture, I want you to come up with some signs. Every time you read a word that deals with food, you say “Yum”. That’s something you can do to be more aware of the times food is mentioned in the Bible that teaches us lessons on contentment and satisfaction.

 

Bible Verses on Contentment - What the Bible Says about Being Content

 

The following are Bible verses and biblical stories with lessons on satisfaction and contentment through food… And don’t forget to say out loud the signal word “Yum” when you read these to your family!

 

1. “At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here. Have some bread and dip it in the wine vinegar.” (Ruth 2:14)

 

2. “So Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah.[a] 18 She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what she had leftover after she had eaten enough…” (Ruth 2:17)

 

3. “For he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.” (Psalm 107:9)

 

4. “So Boaz said to Ruth, “My daughter, listen to me. Don’t go and glean in another field and don’t go away from here. Stay here with the women who work for me. 9 Watch the field where the men are harvesting, and follow along after the women. I have told the men not to lay a hand on you. And whenever you are thirsty, go and get a drink from the water jars the men have filled.” (Ruth 2:8)

 

5. “So Ruth stayed close to the women of Boaz to glean until the barley and wheat harvests were finished.” (Ruth 2:23)

 

6. Naomi took her sons in the Moabite area and they married Moabite women when they are of age. And then after 10 years, her sons died and Naomi lost her husband. And so she decided to go back to the land of Bethlehem because she heard that God has visited there and brought food.

 

So be satisfied in that experience and practice satisfaction and contentment by knowing that God wants to do amazing things in your life. Instead of always looking for something new that man has come up with, always remember that only God's word will make you happy. That is the secret to spiritual contentment. Just the understanding that God dwells in you will suffice to keep you satisfied.

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