{"id":1670,"date":"2020-01-13T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.honestreflections.net\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2019-12-26T10:34:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T15:34:57","slug":"why-being-satisfied-with-enough-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2020\/01\/13\/why-being-satisfied-with-enough-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY BEING SATISFIED WITH ENOUGH MATTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThen Jacob made a vow, saying, \u201cIf God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey…give me food to eat and clothes to wear<\/em><\/strong> <\/sup><\/em><\/strong>…then the Lord will be my God<\/em><\/strong> <\/sup><\/em><\/strong>and this stone…as a pillar<\/em><\/strong> <\/sup><\/em><\/strong>will be God\u2019s house,…all that you give me I will give you a tenth.<\/em><\/strong>\u201d Genesis 28:20-22 NIV<\/em><\/strong>
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In today\u2019s story, Jacob is on his way to find a wife.  He stopped where he was on the road when the sunset. Using a stone for a pillow, he slept for the night.  He had a dream in his sleep. He saw a stairway with angels ascending and descending. God is standing at the top of the stairs; He gives Jacob a blessing.  When Jacob wakes up, he realizes God is with Him. He takes the stone he used as a pillow and makes a pillar to God. The pillar is a physical representation of the vow Jacob makes in today\u2019s scripture.
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Jacob asks God for 3 things: safe travels, food and clothes. Jacob doesn\u2019t ask God for comfort.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t ask Him for a donkey. He doesn\u2019t ask God for money, or better stature in life. He asks God for the basic necessities he will need for his trip.\u00a0 In America, we take the basic necessities for granted. God has blessed our nation abundantly. The majority of Americans have a roof over their head and food in their pantries.\u00a0 We take for granted the blessings in our life, not satisfied with what we have. Our definition of necessity has changed since Jacob\u2019s days. Necessity isn\u2019t food, clothes and safety in America.\u00a0 Necessity has become not having enough
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\u00a0Necessity has become not having enough.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>
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My husband and I are RV\u2019ers.  We love to go for weeks at a time, living in our trailer. One of the reasons we love camping, it reminds of us of what we don\u2019t need.  We don\u2019t need 2 bathrooms. We don\u2019t need cable television or wifi. When we are camping, we\u2019re more grateful for what we do have. We\u2019re grateful to have a place to take shelter when it rains.  We\u2019re grateful for the food we have. We realize we don\u2019t need a packed closet of clothes, we just need enough. And we\u2019re grateful for enough.
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Agur, son of Jakeh, gives us insight into what is enough. \u201c…give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, \u2018Who is the Lord?\u2019 Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God\u201d<\/em> (Proverbs 30:7-9 NIV<\/a>).  Enough is our daily bread, according to Agur, that is all we need.  We live in the land of plenty, our daily bread overflows. We have more than enough, we just don\u2019t recognize it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Question of the Day:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does enough mean to you?
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Further Reading:<\/strong> Genesis 28:1-29:35 NIV<\/a>, Matthew 9:18-38 NIV<\/a>, Psalm 11:1-7 NIV<\/a>, Proverbs 3:11-12 NIV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThen Jacob made a vow, saying, \u201cIf God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey…give me food to eat and clothes to wear …then the Lord will be my God and this stone…as a pillar will be God\u2019s house,…all that you give me I will give you a tenth.\u201d Genesis… Continue reading WHY BEING SATISFIED WITH ENOUGH MATTERS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1675,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions\/1675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}