{"id":9631,"date":"2017-02-06T22:47:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T06:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=9631"},"modified":"2017-02-06T22:47:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T06:47:18","slug":"false-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/06\/false-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"False Hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Psalms 30:6\u00a0\u00a0As for me, I said in my prosperity, \u201cI shall never be moved.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Isaiah 56:12\u00a0\u00a0\u201cCome,\u201d they say, \u201clet me get wine; let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be like this day, great beyond measure.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Daniel 4:30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and the king answered and said, \u201cIs not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power<\/strong> as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Luke 12:19\u00a0\u00a0And I will say to my soul, \u201cSoul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.\u201d\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Proverbs 27:1\u00a0\u00a0Do not boast about tomorrow,<\/strong> for you do not know what a day may bring.<\/p>\n

Luke 21:34\u00a0\u00a0\u201cBut watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life,<\/strong> and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.<\/p>\n

James 4:13-16\u00a0\u00a0Come now, you who say, \u201cToday or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit\u201d\u2014\u00a0\u00a0yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Instead you ought to say, \u201cIf the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ecclesiastes 2:1\u00a0\u00a0I said in my heart, \u201cCome now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself.\u201d But behold, this also was vanity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What cares of this life blind us to our soul purpose of humbly serving, honoring and glorifying God? \u00a0What is in this life that compares to the promise of eternity in heaven? \u00a0What does a life look like that cares not for self but rather seeks to know, understand and serve God? \u00a0Our length of life is but a vapor when compared to eternity. \u00a0Yet we find ourselves consumed with satisfying ourselves with what this world has to offer. \u00a0Our minds lose sight of God so easily. \u00a0We allow our minds to dwell on things temporary and day after day focus on what pleases us. \u00a0We jump on a worldly cause and listen to others who speak with passion about it, never giving thought to or about God. \u00a0We would do well to first seek God and how to humbly serve Him. \u00a0We would do well to keep focus on Him. \u00a0We worry, we boast, we seek self pleasure, and we consume our lives with chasing after that which pulls us further and further away from God. \u00a0How long will God pursue us with grace and mercy before He says ENOUGH and \u00a0allows His wrath loose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.” Psalms 30:6\u00a0\u00a0As for me, I said in my prosperity, \u201cI shall never be moved.\u201d Isaiah 56:12\u00a0\u00a0\u201cCome,\u201d they … Continue reading “False Hopes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[371,2755,2749,2754,164,2750,746,2542,1003,226,2752,2753,2757,2751,2756,2694,1730],"class_list":["post-9631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-boast","tag-cares-of-this-life","tag-considered","tag-eat-drink-and-be-merry","tag-evil","tag-hands","tag-majesty","tag-pleasure","tag-prosperity","tag-soul","tag-striving-after-wind","tag-strong-drink","tag-today","tag-toil","tag-tomorrow","tag-trap","tag-vanity"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9631"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9635,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631\/revisions\/9635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}