{"id":2458,"date":"2020-10-14T07:58:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T15:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=2458"},"modified":"2020-10-14T07:58:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T15:58:53","slug":"devotion-proverbs-114-blessings-from-the-world-are-fleeting-and-not-eternal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=2458","title":{"rendered":"Devotion    Proverbs 11:4     Blessings From The World Are Fleeting And Not Eternal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv4274981610ydpdafe27ebMsoNoSpacing\"><b>Proverbs 11:4<\/b>\u00a0<i>\u201cWealth\u00a0is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4274981610ydpdafe27ebMsoNoSpacing\"><b>Mark 8:36<\/b>\u00a0\u201c<i>For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul<\/i>?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4274981610ydpdafe27ebMsoNoSpacing\">As Pastor Greg Laurie often states, \u201cYou\u2019ve never seen a hearse pulling a U-Haul trailer.\u00a0\u00a0You\u2019re gonna leave everything here on this side, in this life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4274981610ydpdafe27ebMsoNoSpacing\">King Solomon said in\u00a0<b>Ecclesiastes 2:4-11<\/b>\u00a0<i>\u201cI undertook great projects: I built houses for myself\u00a0and planted vineyards.\u00a05\u00a0I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.\u00a06\u00a0I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees.\u00a07\u00a0I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves\u00a0who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me.\u00a08\u00a0I amassed silver and gold\u00a0for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces.\u00a0I acquired male and female singers,\u00a0and a harem[<a class=\"yiv4274981610\" title=\"See footnote a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Ecclesiastes+2&amp;version=NIV#fen-NIV-17342a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a<\/a>]\u00a0as well\u2014the delights of a man\u2019s heart.\u00a09\u00a0I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem\u00a0before me.\u00a0In all this my wisdom stayed with me.\u00a0\u00a010\u00a0I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure.\u00a0\u00a0My heart took delight in all my labor, and this was the reward for all my toil.\u00a0\u00a011\u00a0Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<div>Worldly wealth is fleeting and has of no eternal value, but wealth with God is blessings now and with eternal benefit.\u00a0 God alone is our high treasure!<\/div>\n<p class=\"yiv4274981610ydpdafe27ebMsoNoSpacing\"><b>Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4274981610ydpdafe27ebMsoNoSpacing\"><b>Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will Hear\u00a0me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4274981610ydpdafe27ebMsoNoSpacing\"><b>Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4274981610ydpdafe27ebMsoNoSpacing\"><b>Numbers 6:24-26<\/b>\u00a0\u201cThe\u00a0Lord\u00a0bless you and keep you; 25\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0turn His face\u00a0toward you and give you peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proverbs 11:4\u00a0\u201cWealth\u00a0is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.\u201d Mark 8:36\u00a0\u201cFor what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?\u201d As Pastor Greg Laurie often states, \u201cYou\u2019ve never seen a hearse pulling a U-Haul trailer.\u00a0\u00a0You\u2019re gonna leave everything here on this side, in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[89,93,94,1874,88,17],"class_list":["post-2458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-ecclesiastes","tag-mark","tag-micah","tag-numbers","tag-proverbs","tag-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}