Satan’s fall from heaven was apparently the result of his own discontentment with his position. Cultivating a thankful heart—the self-conscious giving of thanks to God and those around us—paves the road of contentment.

It’s natural for people to be discontent; it’s as natural to man as weeds are to the soil. Thorns and thistles don’t need sowing or cultivating. Likewise, men don’t need to be taught how to complain. However, if you want wheat, you must plow and sow. If you are to have flowers, you must have a garden and a gardener. Contentment is one of the flowers of godliness. If we are to have it, it must be cultivated.

To not be content is to question the goodness of God. The first temptation in history was the temptation of discontentment. God withheld only one tree from Adam and Eve to test their obedience.

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