{"id":3027,"date":"2019-09-15T18:42:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T18:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=3027"},"modified":"2019-09-15T18:42:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T18:42:01","slug":"near-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=3027","title":{"rendered":"Near Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We were working on a project together, and I was thinking it was time we were finished. \u201cWell, that\u2019s near enough\u201d, I said as I put my gear down. My brother-in-law looked at it, and said, \u201cNear enough is not good enough, Gwenyth, you\u2019ll have to spend a bit more time on it!\u201d Those words have stuck with me for over forty years, and whenever I am tempted to think \u201cNear enough\u201d, they come back to haunt me.<\/p>\n

King Solomon was one who chose what was good, but it was not the best. He felt his need for wisdom to rule his people well, and that was good, but when it came to himself he made his own decisions based on worldly wisdom. He thought that by marrying these foreign princesses he would gain peace with their fathers\u2019 nations, instead of trusting God to keep peace for him. What he didn\u2019t reckon on in this reasoning, was that he was disobeying God\u2019s commands to NOT marry anyone who did not follow Him. He was positive it wasn\u2019t all that important and that it didn\u2019t really matter\u2026.after all, look what he was gaining!<\/p>\n

His wives brought their idols and foreign ideas with them, and as he gave each woman her own department, these idols were set up and worshipped by them. It wasn\u2019t long before Solomon\u2019s own walk with God had faltered, and then failed altogether. He had disobeyed God and failed in his duty. Although God blessed him physically and he became the wisest and wealthiest king that has ever been, yet his own spiritual life was dry and dusty, and he declared, \u201cI\u2019ve tried everything there is to try and it\u2019s all vain and useless!\u201d<\/p>\n

He would have been far better off to have asked God not only for wisdom, but for an obedient heart to always follow His ways. How often in these things we say it\u2019s \u201cnear enough\u201d to just go to church each week and then to do our own thing the rest of the week forgetting about God’s ways. Let\u2019s always remember that \u201cnear enough\u201d is NOT good enough, especially in the matter of spiritual values!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We were working on a project together, and I was thinking it was time we were finished. \u201cWell, that\u2019s near enough\u201d, I said as I put my gear down. My brother-in-law looked at it, and said, \u201cNear enough is not good enough, Gwenyth, you\u2019ll have to spend a bit more time on it!\u201d Those … Continue reading Near Enough<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[508],"tags":[294,550,38],"class_list":["post-3027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-lessons","tag-gods-ways","tag-spiritual-values","tag-wisdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p69z0J-MP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3029,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions\/3029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}