{"id":11164,"date":"2020-04-27T13:32:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T13:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=11164"},"modified":"2020-04-27T13:32:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T13:32:37","slug":"solomons-wisdom-on-laziness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/11164\/solomons-wisdom-on-laziness\/","title":{"rendered":"Solomon&#8217;s Wisdom on Laziness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I loved this excerpt from your book Solomon&#8217;s Wisdom. You have to work in this life if you want to be happy and have what God gives you for you and your family. If you are lazy, you become a burden to yourself and everyone else around you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I found out over time how much I like to work and how much it makes me happy. Not only does that matter in our fleshly lives but also in our spiritual life. We can&#8217;t be lazy in any part of our life, nor do I want to be. It takes work to be happy in the flesh, and it takes work to be happy in the spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I have to put out effort to gain anything worth having. I am so thankful that God has blessed us with such wonderful teaching and spiritual guidance in this life. It makes you want to work and not be a burden for your family or anyone around you. That makes you happy and everyone around you happy as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Your labor will not go unrewarded because God made it that way for our good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Stuart<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-11165 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/solwisdom-424.jpg\" alt=\"solwisdom 424\" width=\"555\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/solwisdom-424.jpg 632w, https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/solwisdom-424-300x259.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John, I loved this excerpt from your book Solomon&#8217;s Wisdom. You have to work in this life if you want to be happy and have what God gives you for you and your family. If you are lazy, you become a burden to yourself and everyone else around you. I found out over time how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}