{"id":2545,"date":"2014-10-22T10:27:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T15:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2014-10-22T10:27:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T15:27:34","slug":"money-to-the-glory-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2545","title":{"rendered":"MONEY&#8212;TO THE GLORY OF GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Put in the form of hard questions:<\/p>\n<p>Do our finances bring glory to God when they look hopeless in advance?<\/p>\n<p>And then, God has to do something miraculous, or else?<\/p>\n<p>Put another way:<\/p>\n<p>Is a Christian who is seeking to serve God in everything, supposed to always have money to spare in the bank?<\/p>\n<p>Best answer:<\/p>\n<p>God does not call us to be successful in the eyes of the world; He calls us to be faithful servants, stewards of what belongs to Him&#8212;and it all belongs to Him.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that counts in the end is whether I hear Him say to me, &#8220;Well done, good and faithful servant.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Put in the form of hard questions: Do our finances bring glory to God when they look hopeless in advance? And then, God has to do something miraculous, or else? Put another way: Is a Christian who is seeking to serve God in everything, supposed to always have money to spare in the bank? Best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-financial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2546,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions\/2546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}