{"id":230,"date":"2012-02-11T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/extravagant-giving-and-the-sin-of-hoarding\/"},"modified":"2013-05-10T15:38:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T20:38:10","slug":"extravagant-giving-and-the-sin-of-hoarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"Extravagant Giving and the Sin of Hoarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I have been pondering the sin of hoarding lately. I like security, and often I find security in keeping things around me &#8211; whether I need them or not. My stuff can cause me to sin.\u00a0One thought that has surfaced was:\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<b>how does &#8220;waste not-want not&#8221; work when &#8220;the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want&#8221;?<\/b>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I understand that wasting what we have (food, possessions, resources) is equally wrong for we fail to properly appreciate and use what God has give us.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>However, <b>when I refuse to give away or let go of a possession is that displaying a sinful attitude of trusting in my own riches?<\/b> Could this be a concession to my desire to be self sufficient instead of dependent? Is it a blatant rejection of accepting the reality of my need for &#8220;daily bread&#8221;?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Scriptures are full of extravagant gifts given to glorify God, but criticized by others. Perfume upon the feet, a feast for sinners, a dance before the ark, a temple of incredible dimensions, a new robe for a lost son, a life laid down.<\/div>\n<div>\n<b><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div><b>These individuals did not refuse to give, and give extravagantly.<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been pondering the sin of hoarding lately. I like security, and often I find security in keeping things around me &#8211; whether I need them or not. My stuff can cause me to sin.\u00a0One thought that has surfaced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=230\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34kFn-3I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}