{"id":962,"date":"2014-06-02T16:04:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T16:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/?p=962"},"modified":"2016-01-03T23:39:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T23:39:34","slug":"economics-insight-from-1-timothy-66-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/2014\/06\/02\/economics-insight-from-1-timothy-66-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics Insight From 1 Timothy 6:6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/Pile-of-Cash.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-688\" src=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/Pile-of-Cash.png\" alt=\"Pile-of-Cash\" width=\"350\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/Pile-of-Cash.png 350w, https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/Pile-of-Cash-300x179.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGodliness with contentment is great gain.\u201d Indeed, yet how rarely is contentment mentioned as a measure of wealth or success. Of course contentment is difficult to\u00a0quantify, especially for an outsider. Psychologists can usually only resort to simply asking individuals to rate their level of contentment on a numerical scale from one to ten. Nevertheless, most individuals when pressed confess how \u201cpeace of mind,\u201d \u201cinner security,\u201d or \u201cwell-being\u201d are both laudable and lacking. The scripture continues, \u201cFor we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.\u00a0But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.\u00a0Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.\u201d And now here is the prescription for godliness with contentment: \u201cBut you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.\u00a0Fight the good fight of the faith.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201cGodliness with contentment is great gain.\u201d Indeed, yet how rarely is contentment mentioned as a measure of wealth or success. Of course contentment is difficult to\u00a0quantify, especially for an outsider. Psychologists can usually only resort to simply asking individuals to rate their level of contentment on a numerical scale from one to ten. Nevertheless, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-health-news-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}