Hebrews 13: 5 Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee. 6 So that with good courage we say, The Lord is my helper; I will not fear: What shall man do unto me?

Most of us are afraid of the unknown, and we don’t know what this year is going to bring.

As we face this new year, Jesus may come; we may go up. We may die, and go down, and then up. At any rate, we are going on. We’re going on, we’re facing a brand new year, and we don’t know what it’s going to bring.

The Lord is my helper, I will not fear.

We are Content Knowing He Will Provide

“Let your behavior, your conversation, be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have” (Hebrews 13:5).

Discontentment is a disease, and it takes away your joy, and it takes away your peace. Contentment is not getting what you want, but it is wanting what you already have. Contentment will make a poor man rich and discontentment makes a poor man poor.

No matter how much you have, if you’re discontented, you’re really poor. Sometimes we want things we don’t need. Sometimes we need things we don’t want, and we get all mixed up.

“But godliness with contentment is great gain” (1 Timothy 6:6). You are so rich today, if you know the Lord, and if you’re content. that is great gain—if you know Jesus Christ, and you have contentment. Jesus explains it: “For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. But having food and raiment let us therewith be content” (1 Timothy 6:7). If you’ve got something on your back, and something to eat, and you have Jesus Christ in your heart, you’re blessed.

Material things can never bring contentment, and the reason they cannot bring contentment, is that material things can never satisfy the deepest need of your heart. The Bible says, “He that loveth silver shall never be satisfied with silver” (Ecclesiastes 5:10). Either you can’t get enough of it, or when you get it, you find out it doesn’t meet your need.

Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desire of your heart” (Psalm 37:4).that doesn’t mean that you’ll have every surface need met, every whim, every fancy. It means, when you find all in Jesus Christ, when you delight yourself in the Lord, what your heart has really been seeking for, it will find.

Do you know why we have fear?

We have fear, sometimes, because we think our needs are not going to be met; or, because we think that the things we think are meeting our needs are going to be taken away from us.

“Delight yourself in the Lord, and He’ll give you the desire of your heart.” “Be content with such things as you have.” Do you know the word content literally means “self-contained. “Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.” (Philippians 4:11–13. And that literally means, “I can do all things through Christ, who is pouring His life into me.”

That doesn’t mean that I don’t have any ambition.

In support of this view, the writer quotes from the Old Testament: I will never fail you nor forsake you. The words appear to come from a mixture of sources ( Josh. 1:5; Deut. 31:6, 8). As this promise had been a great support to the Israelites faced with the hardships which preceded their entry into the promised land, so the readers of this letter could take their stand on the same promise.

We are Content Because of His Presence

I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee” Hebrews 13:5.

I don’t know what I’m going to face next year. But there’s one thing I know: I know He will never leave me; I know He will not forsake me.

We fear because we’re afraid we’re going to have to face something we don’t understand, and we’re going to have to face it alone.

One thing that is seriously wrong with the way our government is handling covid cases, is refusing to allow people to visit their sick. Leaving them alone, often to die alone. People should have the right to choose to get sick if they want to see their loved ones who are dying. God forbid.

Dr. Abraham Maslow, famed research analyst said, “The truth is that the average American does not have a real friend in the world.” People need someone to love, and they need to be loved; and, without it, their lives are filled with fear and frustration

“I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee,” actually has five negatives in it. Now we say a double negative is bad English, but evidently it wasn’t bad Greek. Here’s what it literally says, “I will never, no, not ever, no, never leave nor forsake you.” Let me give that to you again: “I will never, no, not ever, no, never leave you nor forsake you.”

The very emphatic form of the citation (first with a double then with a triple negation), “I will in no wise fail, neither will I ever in any wise forsake thee,”It literally means, “I will not abandon you, I will not give up on you.” I will not leave you a helpless orphan. I will not forsake you.

When I am discouraged, His presence sees me through. When I am lonely, His presence cheers me up. When, I am worried, His presence just calms me down. Worry is a mild form of atheism. It’s acting like God doesn’t exist.

We need to live our lives as if Jesus is near us, and that takes away fear and gives us contentment.

We are Content Because of His Promise

“He hath said” This, gives us confidence of His promise.

A promise is no better than the one who makes it.

“I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee”? It is the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent God. when I say, “God, I’m afraid of what I have to go through the next year,” the omnipresent God says, “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”

History confirms that God keeps his promise, but not always how we thing it should be handled.

We are Content Knowing He Will Protect

“So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper.” and I will not fear what man shall do unto me” Hebrews 13:5–6

We are going to face some things. It will not be all honey and no bees. Oh, no. this coming year may be a very horrendous year for you. We can stand upon the promises of the Word of God, and say boldly, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear what man shall do to me.”

Having made an appeal to the Old Testament the writer now gives another, from Psalm 118, a famous Jewish thanksgiving psalm which was regularly used at festivals. It is taken for granted that Christians can appropriate Old Testament words as an expression of their own experience. The words are suitable because they affirm the changeless character of God as helper.

Psalms 118 Praise the LORD, all you Gentiles! Laud Him, all you peoples!
For His merciful kindness is great toward us,
And the truth of the LORD endures forever.
Praise the LORD! Praise to God for His Everlasting Mercy
Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good!
For His mercy endures forever. Let Israel now say,
“His mercy endures forever.” Let the house of Aaron now say,
“His mercy endures forever.” Let those who fear the LORD now say,
“His mercy endures forever.” I called on the LORD in distress;
The LORD answered me and set me in a broad place.
The LORD is on my side; I will not fear.
What can man do to me?