Philippians 4:11
"Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, [therewith] to be content."
What does being content in every state look like? And how can I attempt to become so? Questions like these are important to ask and think through, because frankly, I don't know the answer. I don't know that I have ever been fully content in a situation. Even now as I write, I am not content. I feel like I have written all that I desire to write about being content considering my IBS For yesterday. How silly that is of me. I actually had a mindset going into this believing that God wasn't going to show me anything new. I amaze myself each and everyday with how hypocritical I really am.
I suppose the first step to being content is to put your full trust and hope in God. If we understand that He will keep His promises and live accordingly, being content would be rather easy. That is, it would be easy for a robot. Entertain this concept with me for a moment. Suppose we were only mentally capable of calculation, no emotion. It would be so easy for us to be content, it would be easy for all man kind to believe in God. We would never doubt His existence for the simple reason that it is logical. Not that The gospel is logical, but the existence of God is a logical conclusion that can only be denied from a position which requires emotion. I don't believe the evidence or the science because I refuse to believe in a god. I understand the value of emotions, but I also understand their capability of addling our minds. They are a poisonous thing hat we let substitute sanity and reason. They are an unexplainable part of everyone's personality that speaks volumes beyond anything else about them. Emotions start wars, emotions lead to the creation of children. They are the cattail it's of humanity, without them  what would the human race really be? Well we would probably be more advanced, not that emotions haven't propelled the advancement in fields of science and engineering, but unrestricted reason and logic would certainly be an advantage in fields such as these. But, without emotion, we would merely understand our need for a savior, we wouldn't be able to feel it. We wouldn't see the problem with sin because we wouldn't be able to relate to God. We would, by the very nature of our intellectual superiority, be mindless. This, was of course, not Gods intent for us. He desired our affection and still does to this day. We feel the weight and burden of sin because we are aware of its affect on God. Thus The Holly spirit convicts us when we fall into it. Honestly, our emotion seems to be a conglomeration of our flesh and The Spirit working out the way we feel about everything. The only problem is we let our flesh drown Gods spirit deep within us. To be completely content is an impossibility. Just as impossible as it is to be without sin. But we are to trust in The Lord at the VERY least, as if we were void of emotion, and love Him the way that we are. I believe that as we continue to grow under His loving care that we begin to believe for ourselves the evidence of the intangible effects He has on our hearts. We then begin to trust in Him with our emotions and our heart. Thus resulting in a state of being joyfully content.