{"id":11167,"date":"2020-04-27T13:37:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T13:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=11167"},"modified":"2020-04-27T13:37:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T13:37:08","slug":"solomons-wisdom-april-27-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/11167\/solomons-wisdom-april-27-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Solomon&#8217;s Wisdom &#8211; April 27, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The Excerpt below is a warning against being lazy. The last sentence reads: &#8220;Idleness produces hunger.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">When I read that, I realized it was God&#8217;s judgment against slothfulness. It is meant to teach us when we are young, or even punish us when we are old.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The world gets in the way of God&#8217;s lesson. Whether it is a government that supports the able-bodied when they will not work or a parent that habitually supports their grown children when they fall in and out of employment, it teaches folk that there are no consequences for their actions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">It is a simple lesson: If you don&#8217;t work you don&#8217;t eat, but it is God&#8217;s wisdom. It teaches us early that we reap what we sow &#8211; if someone doesn&#8217;t get in the way of that precious lesson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">It is a lot easier to believe that God will judge us for our sins in the end if there are consequences felt now for our foolish choices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jerry<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-11170 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/solwis0427.jpg\" alt=\"SOLWIS0427\" width=\"558\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/solwis0427.jpg 633w, https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/solwis0427-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, The Excerpt below is a warning against being lazy. The last sentence reads: &#8220;Idleness produces hunger.\u201d When I read that, I realized it was God&#8217;s judgment against slothfulness. It is meant to teach us when we are young, or even punish us when we are old. The world gets in the way of [&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-11167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11167"}],"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=11167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}