{"id":7178,"date":"2020-10-28T18:01:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T23:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nazareneblogs.org\/pastorscott\/?p=5278"},"modified":"2020-10-28T18:01:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T23:01:04","slug":"devotional-on-ecclesiastes-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-ecclesiastes-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Ecclesiastes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-uIO7W6cB4J8\/X5iPIOBu7sI\/AAAAAAABHMw\/JnXWOq0PP4cVOVa4-X84OcMIw0gNgI7HACPcBGAsYHg\/s400\/13denver.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-large\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2003 &#8211; Colorado &#8211; Denver in the distance<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nFriends and family<br \/>\nEcclesiastes 4: A three-stranded rope isn&#8217;t easily snapped.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s power in relationships. I&#8217;ve heard it said that some people are &#8220;married to their jobs.&#8221; That is, their work is the most important thing in their life and because of that the most important relationship in their life has suffered. The writer reminds those with type \u201cA\u201d personalities that relationships are what make life worth living. A person who gives everything up to climb the cooperate ladder is chasing after smoke, wasting their life. Accomplishments are worthwhile only when there\u2019s someone with whom to share them. Also, family and friends help us get up again after life has knocked us down. There\u2019s more to life than work, position, and financial rewards. In fact, these potential blessings can become a curse if they dominate our lives. Our most valuable possessions are our relationships. The greatest mistake a person can make is to neglect and lose the real &#8220;gold&#8221; of life for some job or due to an unhealthy devotion to the ladder of success.<br \/>\nTake Away: Our most valuable possessions are our relationships<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends and family Ecclesiastes 4: A three-stranded rope isn&#8217;t easily snapped. There\u2019s power in relationships. I&#8217;ve heard it said that some people are &#8220;married to their jobs.&#8221; That is, their work is the most important thing in their life and because of that the most important relationship in their life has suffered. The writer reminds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,7],"tags":[122,345,375,837,902],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7178"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7178"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14869,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7178\/revisions\/14869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}