{"id":8405,"date":"2023-08-17T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/?p=8405"},"modified":"2023-07-15T06:50:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T11:50:10","slug":"8405","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2023\/08\/17\/8405\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-indulgent Pleasure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Daily Reading:<\/strong> Nehemiah 12:27-13:31<\/strong><\/a>, 1 Cor. 11:1-16<\/strong><\/a>, Psalm 35:1-16<\/strong><\/a>, Proverbs 21:17-18<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Verse:<\/strong> \u201cWhoever loves pleasure will be a poor man;\u00a0he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.\u201d Prov. 21:17<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Self-indulgent pleasure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Living to please your desires leads to poverty. God wants us to live joy-filled lives with Him.\u00a0 But excessive or uncontrolled pleasure-seeking that ignores or neglects other responsibilities leads to living beyond their means and poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the things I\u2019ve witnessed with famous people who have excess money, like sports stars, they experience bankruptcy. How does someone making millions a year go bankrupt? Because they spend frivolously and live far beyond their means, eventually, the money runs out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to The Hill<\/strong><\/a><\/em>, Americans carry over 1 trillion dollars in credit card debt, with 24% the average interest rate on new accounts. The typical U.S. household has over $10,000 in debt. Paying $250 a month at 24% interest means it will take until 2030 to pay it off, spending $20,318, twice the amount owed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Living a joyful life in Christ means living within our means, not spending more than we make, and following Biblical financial principles to find peace.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Lord, forgive us for living beyond our means. Teach us financial wisdom as we apply Your principles to our finances. Let us live joyful lives centered around You. IJNIP. Amen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One minute read. Daily Reading: Nehemiah 12:27-13:31, 1 Cor. 11:1-16, Psalm 35:1-16, Proverbs 21:17-18 Daily Verse: \u201cWhoever loves pleasure will be a poor man;\u00a0he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.\u201d Prov. 21:17 Self-indulgent pleasure. Living to please your desires leads to poverty. God wants us to live joy-filled lives with Him.\u00a0 But… Continue reading Self-indulgent Pleasure<\/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-8405","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\/8405","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=8405"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8410,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405\/revisions\/8410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}