Content with our lot ?

[rgcraig]

D4T - didn't mean to broadbrush - I was just responding to this one quote from his friend.

The Bible teaches to be content with your lot in life. It never mentions, to my knowledge, that you should try to excel in this world.

I disagree that the Bible teaches to be content with your "lot in life" or that you shouldn't excel in this world. A child might be born into an alcoholic home - that's their lot in life, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't strive to do better than their parents.

See what I mean?

I don't believe the Bible means at all that anyone should be content with their "lot in life".......we can always do better. When I read what the friend wrote it just sounded to me like they were making excuses for not doing more. God will always provide, but he has given us tools, strengths, etc. to do always do better.

That kind of attitude is prominent in churches of "our 40 and no more."