{"id":1638,"date":"2011-11-21T11:35:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T15:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2011-11-21T11:35:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T15:35:34","slug":"laboring-in-vain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1638","title":{"rendered":"Laboring in Vain"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cUnless the Lord builds the house,<br \/>\nthose who build it labor in vain.<br \/>\nUnless the Lord watches over the city,<br \/>\nthe watchman stays awake in vain.<br \/>\nIt is in vain that you rise up early<br \/>\nand go late to rest,<br \/>\neating the bread of anxious toil;<br \/>\nfor he gives to his beloved sleep.\u201d \u2013 Psalm 127:1-2 (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>In all of our daily endeavors, it\u2019s essential that we pursue our tasks with the conscious involvement of our Heavenly Father.\u00a0 While working hard and giving diligent attention to our responsibilities is absolutely important, if we don\u2019t strive to bring God into our lives and make Him a part of everything we do, those efforts to a great extent will be futile.\u00a0 Only by realizing and embracing our dependence on God\u2019s grace and mercy can our toils yield the fruits of those efforts.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUnless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.\u201d \u2013 Psalm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2088],"tags":[2154,3194,2157,2156,1576,2138,1507,2158,2155,253],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-daily-endeavors","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-dependence-on-god","tag-diligent-attention","tag-gods-grace","tag-gods-mercy","tag-gods-presence","tag-grace-and-mercy","tag-hard-work","tag-psalm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-qq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}