{"id":7187,"date":"2020-11-06T18:56:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T00:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nazareneblogs.org\/pastorscott\/?p=5296"},"modified":"2020-11-06T18:56:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T00:56:28","slug":"devotional-on-ecclesiastes-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-ecclesiastes-31\/","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\/-TWUm43NL6v0\/X6RoskaJ8pI\/AAAAAAABHfc\/ju3WLSkLKPMtZXDgJDML7FihZfPWjak9QCPcBGAsYHg\/s400\/16rky_mtn_park.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-large\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2003 &#8211; Rocky Mtn Natl Park, Colorado<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nReturn on investment<br \/>\nEcclesiastes 11: Be generous: Invest in acts of charity.  Charity yields high returns.<br \/>\nThe Lord is wonderfully generous to us.  He\u2019s given us the world and all its beauty and life itself.  His greatest gift to us is salvation.  This gift cost him everything as is seen at the cross.  This is God&#8217;s investment in us and his charity toward us.  Solomon says &#8220;charity yields high returns.&#8221;  God gave everything and he has every right to expect big returns on his investment.  What is the return he expects?  He expects human beings to respond to his great act of charity by giving their hearts to him in loving devotion.  From the very beginning God has desired willing fellowship from us.  That relationship is so valuable to the Lord that he gave everything (invested everything) that that relationship might be restored.  It&#8217;s my positive response to that sacrifice; my responding in love and thanksgiving, and my walking in continued fellowship with the Lord that he considers to be a &#8220;high return.&#8221;<br \/>\nTake Away: Am I giving the Lord a \u201chigh return\u201d on his investment in me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Return on investment Ecclesiastes 11: Be generous: Invest in acts of charity. Charity yields high returns. The Lord is wonderfully generous to us. He\u2019s given us the world and all its beauty and life itself. His greatest gift to us is salvation. This gift cost him everything as is seen at the cross. This is [&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":[122,352,603,939,941],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187"}],"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=7187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14884,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions\/14884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}