{"id":803,"date":"2020-03-06T16:03:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T16:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/?p=803"},"modified":"2024-01-26T21:32:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T21:32:17","slug":"isaiah-552","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/isaiah-552\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaiah 55:2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column803_91dc04-f2 inner-column-1\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:24px\"> <strong>THE INWARD LIFE OF A STEWARD<\/strong><br><strong>Finding Contentment<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-style-large\">\n<p>Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/899932848?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Isaiah<\/strong> asks in<strong> 55:2<\/strong>, <em>Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy<\/em> (NASB)? Even though this verse was written 900 years before Christ, it could easily be a question your pastor might ask in this week\u2019s sermon. How is it that we have become so consumed with buying more and more things when neither food nor things ultimately satisfy us? Is it because we have believed the lie that things make us happy? If this is true, why did John D. Rockefeller admit, \u201cI have made many millions, but they have brought me no happiness.\u201d Henry Ford confessed after becoming a multimillionaire, \u201cI was happier doing a mechanic\u2019s job.\u201d Isaiah was right to ask why do we buy what will not satisfy.  <em>Think about it<\/em>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/philippians-411-12\/\">Next Stewardship Minute<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,68],"tags":[47,30,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3943,"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/3943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}