{"id":11827,"date":"2021-01-14T02:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T02:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=11827"},"modified":"2021-01-14T02:02:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T02:02:00","slug":"an-unexpected-bout-of-thankfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/11827\/an-unexpected-bout-of-thankfulness\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unexpected Bout of Thankfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color:#000000;\">God is right, so my opinions and observations add nothing really to what He requires, but it\u2019s my observation that God\u2019s people today, by and large, have very little, to no discernment as to \u201cvalue.\u201d<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color:#000000;\">What is our soul worth?\u00a0 What is the value of eternal life?\u00a0 What is it worth to have the Word of God come?\u00a0 What price is salvation in the end worth to us?\u00a0 How much money have we saved by living this upright life we live in the Spirit, versus what we would have thrown away on lives of foolishness and sin?\u00a0 What price do you put on righteousness and peace and joy?\u00a0 What is it worth to have a real pastor to help us put and keep our lives in order?\u00a0 What do you owe the man who rescues you from ignorance and death?<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Tithes and offerings is such a small amount, I think God gave us the best deal ever and has asked for very little, financially speaking.\u00a0 I think all these benefits are worth at least 50%, so God is far more generous than I would have been.\u00a0 (Ha.)<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Besides that, it feels good to know the money God has put in my hands is being used for something good and eternal, and by someone that He has sent to benefit himself and others.\u00a0 And I think if we tallied it up, you have spent more on us than we have given you.\u00a0 I have always seen those who refuse to render tithes and offerings as the greedy or at the very least, people ignorant of real value of their souls.<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thank you for receiving my tithes and offerings, John.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t have to be this way.\u00a0 Jesus could have left me in Daly City, alone and frustrated until the day of my death.\u00a0 But He saw fit to do otherwise.\u00a0 So, I think I got the best of things and I love rendering mine.\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-11829\" src=\"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/point-finger.png\" alt=\"point finger\" width=\"34\" height=\"34\" \/><\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Sorry so lengthy, but I had an unexpected bout of thankfulness.\u00a0<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Gary<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, God is right, so my opinions and observations add nothing really to what He requires, but it\u2019s my observation that God\u2019s people today, by and large, have very little, to no discernment as to \u201cvalue.\u201d What is our soul worth?\u00a0 What is the value of eternal life?\u00a0 What is it worth to have [&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-11827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827"}],"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=11827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}