{"id":5183,"date":"2010-09-29T08:28:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T13:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=5183"},"modified":"2010-09-29T08:28:48","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T13:28:48","slug":"envying-the-wicked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100929-5183.htm","title":{"rendered":"Envying the Wicked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to envy the wicked, to covet the peace and prosperity the godless seem to enjoy.  I look at their houses, their husbands, their children, their jobs.  Why cannot I have such things as they?<\/p>\n<p>Because I have one thing far better.<\/p>\n<p><i>I have God.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>He&#8217;ll never leave.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Their houses and goods, friendships and family could all vanish&#8211;my God will always remain.<\/p>\n<p><i>Their possessions are always subject to loss.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Mine, if Christ is my all, is eternally secure.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>He will never leave me.<\/p>\n<p>He will never forsake me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are a thousand earthly possessions compared to that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have.  For He Himself has said, &#8220;I will never leave you nor forsake you.&#8221;<br \/>\n~Hebrews 13:5<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to envy the wicked, to covet the peace and prosperity the godless seem to enjoy. I look at their houses, their husbands, their children, their jobs. Why cannot I have such things as they? Because I have one thing far better. I have God. He&#8217;ll never leave. Their houses and goods, friendships and &#8230; <a title=\"Envying the Wicked\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100929-5183.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Envying the Wicked<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[280,291,389,395],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}