{"id":12298,"date":"2021-08-21T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12298"},"modified":"2021-08-21T15:21:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T15:21:00","slug":"excerpt-from-solomons-wisdom-book-august-20-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12298\/excerpt-from-solomons-wisdom-book-august-20-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Excerpt from Solomon’s Wisdom Book, August 20, 2021*"},"content":{"rendered":"

* https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_books_solomon.html?tname=solomon00<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

This resonated in my heart.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many years ago, probably 1993, I worked at a restaurant\u00a0when I was first starting\u00a0to seek the Lord. I was partially\u00a0in Xty and hadn’t yet connected with either Gary or Pastor John’s work.\u00a0 But I was under conviction for my sins, and was trying to live right, as a “Christian”, and I gave\u00a0some advice to a younger co-worker (in his 20’s) who drank too much alcohol.\u00a0 As I vaguely recall, I merely told him that he ought to take a look\u00a0at how much he drinks, because it could\u00a0get\u00a0out of hand.\u00a0 It wasn’t a reproof, per se, nor a judgment; just some moral encouragement and a suggestion, which\u00a0came from a heart that was being changed by Jesus, and I felt\u00a0compelled\u00a0to tell him that for his own good.\u00a0 He took the suggestion humbly but little did I know that it would actually have a\u00a0huge<\/em>\u00a0impact on his life.<\/span><\/p>\n

I never\u00a0saw him again\u00a0after I moved on to another\u00a0job, until at least 15 years later. I ran into him at a copy\u00a0store. He enthusiastically greeted\u00a0me, after we recognized one another, and immediately told me that my admonishment had changed his life forever. He stopped drinking, went to AA meetings, found a girlfriend, got married and had a successful job in Real Estate.\u00a0 He was indebted to me for calling him out for his fondness\u00a0for drinking because it convicted him and he made a U-turn in his life.\u00a0 We didn’t discuss God or faith at the time, so that wasn’t part of the equation.\u00a0 But it was\u00a0amazing that I made that\u00a0impression on him,\u00a0by simply\u00a0pointing out his addiction!\u00a0 He thanked me and went on his way.\u00a0 I gained his lifelong\u00a0respect\u00a0for my sincere words, which were only a mild rebuke, if that. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thankful to have been used by God, even before\u00a0I had the Spirit inside.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brad<\/span><\/p>\n

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* https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_books_solomon.html?tname=solomon00 This resonated in my heart. Many years ago, probably 1993, I worked at a restaurant\u00a0when I was first starting\u00a0to seek the Lord. I was partially\u00a0in Xty and hadn’t yet connected with either Gary or Pastor John’s work.\u00a0 But I was under conviction for my sins, and was trying to live right, as a […]<\/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-12298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12298"}],"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=12298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}