John Calvin on the glory of God and contentment

"The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places, surely I have a delightful inheritance. (Psalm 16:6-7) The Psalmist so glories in God as nobly to despise all that the world imagines to be excellent and desirable without him. By magnifying God in such honorable and exhaulted strains, he gives us to understand that he does not desire anything more as his portion and felicity. This doctrine may be profitable to us in many ways. It ought to draw us away not only from all the perverse inventions of superstition, but also from all the allurements of the flesh and of the world. Whenever, therefore, those things present themselves to us which would lead us away from resting in God alone, let us make use of this sentiment as an antidote against them, that we have sufficient cause for being contented, since he who has in himself an absolute fullness of all good, has given himself to be enjoyed by us. In this way we will experience our condition to be always pleasant and comfortable; for he who has God as his portion is destitute of nothing which is requisite to constitute a happy life." John Calvin