{"id":808,"date":"2022-03-19T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elshaddaichristian.com\/?p=808"},"modified":"2022-03-19T09:00:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T09:00:33","slug":"the-old-quakers-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewjob.store\/pastorglenn\/the-old-quakers-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Quaker\u2019s Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"

An old Quaker advertised that he would give away 40 acres of good farmland to anyone who is perfectly satisfied with what he had. One day, a man seeking the land came up to the Quaker and said, \u201cI would like to have the land.\u201d The Quaker asked him, \u201cArt thou perfectly satisfied with what thou hast?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cYes,\u201d answered the man, \u201cI am perfectly satisfied.\u201d \u201cThen,\u201d said the Quaker, \u201cwhy on earth does thou want this land?\u201d Less the old Quaker never parted with his land, because the only ones perfectly satisfied with what they had were not interested in getting it, and those who want the land weren\u2019t perfectly satisfied. Messiah told us, \u201c<\/span>if you will lose your life for my sake, you will find it<\/span><\/i>.\u201d And He told the rich young ruler, \u201c<\/span>if you wish to be complete, go and sell your possessions and give the money to the poor<\/span><\/i>.\u201d It\u2019s a paradox, but it\u2019s true. If you want to be full, empty yourself. If you want to be content, then let go of your wants. For having nothing but God is to have everything-an abundant life and perfect satisfaction.\u00a0<\/span>(From Jonathan Cahn\u2019s message 1488)<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When I dedicated\u00a0my life to serving God and becoming a Christian, one of the hardest things I had to learn, and am still working on, is distinguishing between my needs and my wants. Being raised Quaker for the first 25 years of my life this subject was always in the forefront of our training. We were taught to live a simple lifestyle. In my opinion, this both helped and hurt me in the long run. When you live a very simple and uncomplicated life is a lot easier to deal with everyday situations. On the other hand, when I got out on my own I felt totally deprived and empty from all the stuff everyone else had. I have\u00a0now learned how to\u00a0combine the two sides that have resulted in the lifestyle I currently have. I was once told, \u201cit is not what you have but it is what you do with what you have\u201d.\u00a0God promises to meet our needs. He knows our every need, even before we can ask Him for it. He is good and gracious to provide for us all that we need so that we can live a life for His glory. We must remember that God created us and the world, so therefore everything actually belongs to Him. We are only stewards of everything in our world including family until we go to judgment. If we were truly the owners we would be able to take it with us but we can\u2019t.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Matthew 6:31<\/span><\/b>.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

“Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

32<\/strong>.\u00a0 “For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33<\/strong><\/span><\/i>.\u00a0 “But seek first His\u00a0kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

34.<\/strong>\u00a0 “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An old Quaker advertised that he would give away 40 acres of good farmland to anyone who is perfectly satisfied with what he had. One day, a man seeking the land came up to the Quaker and said, \u201cI would like to have the land.\u201d The Quaker asked him, \u201cArt thou perfectly satisfied with what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-stories","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reviewjob.store\/pastorglenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reviewjob.store\/pastorglenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reviewjob.store\/pastorglenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reviewjob.store\/pastorglenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reviewjob.store\/pastorglenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reviewjob.store\/pastorglenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reviewjob.store\/pastorglenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reviewjob.store\/pastorglenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reviewjob.store\/pastorglenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reviewjob.store\/pastorglenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}