Being Content WHATEVER The Circumstances?

My favorite scripture is Philippians 4:11b-14
" I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is like to be in need, and I now what it is like to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation. Whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or living in want . I can do ALL things through Him who gives me strength."
This scripture has become more real to me over the last few months. I had the opportunity to go to Uganda, Africa with my church in September. It was an incredible experience. Through that trip, I realized the reality of this scripture. I not only saw people with absolutely nothing on a daily basis, I lived with some of them. When I first arrived and on into the next couple of days my heat ached for these people that had nothing- no clean water, very little shelter if any, barely enough food to stay alive, little clothing, no money-nothing. But a few days into to the trip I realized, what little I had and how much the people I was staying with had. How incredibly spiritually bankrupt I was, and how rich they were. The reality hit me hard, one night while I was laying in my mosquito net covered bed, in the small village of chagwe, I heard a distant hum in the background. I decided to take a walk to the cement bathroom building. As I walked closer I realized that the humming was coming from a hut not far away. The Ugandans that had been serving us all day from getting up early to make our breakfast, to doing our laundry by hand causing blisters on their hands, from staying up late to serve us dinner, do the dishes, and then serve themselves, were now in a hut singing praise songs to Jesus in their native tongue. As I silently wept at their dedication in the wee morning hours ( I think it was somewhere around 3 am) I thought about how much I was lacking. Here I was thinking I was rich compared to these people, and it turned out the other way around. It is amazing to me how the thinking of us Americans is perverted . Although the Ugandans I met had nothing of material value, they had everything, because God was the only thing they had, their only hope, strength, desire, want, confidant, he was their everything. While He was their everything, He was only my something. I realize now the reality of this verse and what God was trying to speak to me. I praise God for the impact this scripture has made in my life. I also pray that God does the same for each and everyone reading this. Maybe this scripture won’t have the same meaning to you as it now does me, but I pray that you experience the same kind of “awakening” experience of your own.