{"id":547,"date":"2017-07-08T22:27:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T22:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=547"},"modified":"2017-07-08T22:27:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T22:27:28","slug":"proverbs-287-gluttonous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"Proverbs 28:7 \u2013 \u201cGluttonous\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Absorbing God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA discerning son heeds instruction, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.\u201d Proverbs 28:7<\/p>\n<p><strong>Applying God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 4<sup>th<\/sup> of July was a nice event for our family. Our 55+ community had a cookout and games for the grandchildren. We watched a small veteran\u2019s parade, swam, danced and ate good food.<\/p>\n<p>After sunset, we drove to the top of a mountain that overlooks the entire Santa Clara Valley. We waited patiently for the fireworks to begin.<\/p>\n<p>I have taken our family to displays of fireworks for forty years. On this Fourth of July, I thought we would be witnessing about 15-20 different ones across the valley.\u00a0 To my surprise, there were more like 75-100. The wastefulness of it saddened me. I could hear God speaking to my heart, saying, \u201cDon\u2019t be a companion of gluttons, son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I thought about my own wastefulness and about the thousands of dollars going up in smoke. Could there be another way of celebrating our freedom; something that would allow all this wasted money to go toward a more meaningful cause; something that would make our Father proud?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Accounting of God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Am I a discerning son or a companion of gluttons? Does my wastefulness disgrace God?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God&#8217;s Word\u00a0 \u201cA discerning son heeds instruction, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.\u201d Proverbs 28:7 Applying God&#8217;s Word The 4th of July was a nice event for our family. Our 55+ community had a cookout and games &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=547\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}