{"id":1238,"date":"2009-10-05T08:09:04","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T14:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2009-10-05T08:09:04","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T14:09:04","slug":"why-work-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2009\/why-work-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"reading\">Reading:<\/p>\n<h3>Proverbs 10:2-5<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>Why work? Well, here&#8217;s a good reason:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bible\">&#8220;He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame&#8221;<\/span> (Proverbs 6:5).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a short list I put together over a decade ago (you know, in the previous millenium!):<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Work exercises body or mind.\n<\/li>\n<li>Work builds and fortifies character.\n<\/li>\n<li>Work enables service.\n<\/li>\n<li>Work makes people productive.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>To see how I fleshed out that skeletal list, read the full lesson: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptists.org\/clp\/youth\/10-398.html\">The Christian and Work<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/a-slack-hand.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/a-slack-hand.jpg\" alt=\"[The Scriptures say in Proverbs 10:4 -- He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand]\" title=\"God's Word says: He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand (Proverbs 10:4)\" class=\"scale4\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"chapver\">from Proverbs 10:4<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading: Proverbs 10:2-5 Why work? Well, here&#8217;s a good reason: &#8220;He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame&#8221; (Proverbs 6:5). Here&#8217;s a short list I put together over a decade ago (you know, in the previous millenium!): Work exercises body or mind. [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[44,31],"class_list":{"0":"post-1238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-proverbs","7":"tag-live-right","8":"tag-way-of-righteousness","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry","11":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-jY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}