We must be aware of the deceit of riches. Then we begin to think that happiness and personal worth and success is found in proportion to one's possessions, dress, savings, house. That is paganism. Religion is not a living. Religion is trust in God.
Covetousness dulls our spiritual senses.
It makes us into brute beasts. And it turns our minds into a mind of a cow, which thinks only of its next feeding. Contentment, therefore, is the grace of God to make God's value judgments concerning what is truly rich. True riches is to have a cleared conscience before God. True richness is to have fellowship with the living God through faith in Jesus Christ.