{"id":72678,"date":"2025-09-11T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/?p=72678"},"modified":"2025-10-03T08:12:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:12:59","slug":"debt-wealth-and-poverty-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/debt-wealth-and-poverty-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Debt, Wealth, and Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>After completing your daily reading, come back to chat with fellow Bible readers about any reflections you have on the proverbs, introduction, or questions from today.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wealth is not necessarily inherently sinful\u2014God gave King Solomon great wealth, and He continues to use the generosity of His people to fund important works of mercy and justice around the world. But God\u2019s people are called to be very careful when it comes to the pursuit of wealth and very generous when it comes to caring for the poor. Money is more than a means to buy the things we need; it is the ability to tangibly care about the wellbeing of another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reflection Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How would you describe your current relationship with money?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read Proverbs 11:28 again. How have you experienced the untrustworthiness of riches?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why do you think how someone makes money matters?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After completing your daily reading, come back to chat with fellow Bible readers about any reflections you have on the proverbs, introduction, or questions from today. Wealth is not necessarily inherently sinful\u2014God gave King Solomon great wealth, and He continues to use the generosity of His people to fund important works of mercy and justice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[303],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-proverbs25"],"acf":{"hero_background_image":false,"related_plans":[72593],"weekly_truth":false,"grace_day":false,"share_text":"#SheReadsTruth","devotional_text":"<b>DEBT, WEALTH, AND POVERTY<\/b><br><br \/>\r\n<p><em>After completing your daily reading, come back to chat with fellow Bible readers about any reflections you have on the proverbs, introduction, or questions from today.<\/em><\/p><br \/>\r\n<p class=\"p1\u201d>Wealth is not necessarily inherently sinful\u2014God gave King Solomon great wealth, and He continues to use the generosity of His people to fund important works of mercy and justice around the world. But God\u2019s people are called to be very careful when it comes to the pursuit of wealth and very generous when it comes to caring for the poor. Money is more than a means to buy the things we need; it is the ability to tangibly care about the wellbeing of another.<\/p><br \/>\r\n<p><strong>Reflection Questions:<\/strong><\/p><br \/>\r\n<p class=\"p1\u201d>How would you describe your current relationship with money?<\/p><br \/>\r\n<p class=\"p1\u201d>Read Proverbs 11:28 again. How have you experienced the untrustworthiness of riches?<\/p><br \/>\r\n<p class=\"p1\u201d>Why do you think how someone makes money matters?<\/p>","share_image_height":"640","day_number":"25","scripture":"Proverbs 11:28, Proverbs 14:21, Proverbs 16:8, Proverbs 21:5-6, Proverbs 22:1-5, Proverbs 22:7, Proverbs 28:6, Proverbs 28:8, Proverbs 28:11","available":true,"ad_banner_name":"","ad_banner_image":false,"ad_banner_url":"","songs":"","key_verse":"","key_verse_reference":"","background_image":false,"background_color":"#FBF7F3","scripture_references":false,"share_image":false,"author_name":"","author_bio":"","guest_social_media":false,"show_ad":true,"ad_override":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}