{"id":1702,"date":"2011-12-05T10:02:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T14:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2011-12-05T10:02:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T14:02:22","slug":"our-lives-are-a-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1702","title":{"rendered":"Our Lives Are a Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cBehold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot.\u00a0Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil\u2014this is the gift of God.\u00a0For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart.\u201d \u2013 Ecclesiastes 5:18-20 (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>Our lives are a gift from God; in times of prosperity, times of struggle, times of toil, and times of rest.\u00a0 If at all times we find the joy of Christ in those Blessings we\u2019re given, then we not only lead happier, more fulfilling lives, but at the same time we also glorify God\u2019s benevolence in the process.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBehold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot.\u00a0Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and [&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":[12,1899,321,3194,987,2248,2246,966,2144,269,222,1368,242,727,777,2247],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-blessings","tag-book-of-ecclesiastes","tag-christ","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-ecclesiastes","tag-fulfilling-lives","tag-gift-from-god","tag-god","tag-gods-benevolence","tag-jesus","tag-joy","tag-joy-of-christ","tag-prosperity","tag-rest","tag-struggle","tag-toil"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-rs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","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=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}