{"id":145508,"date":"2026-05-30T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145508"},"modified":"2026-05-30T07:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T11:42:14","slug":"from-the-morning-scripture-readings-1229","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145508","title":{"rendered":"From the morning Scripture readings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is great gain in godliness with contentment;&nbsp;for we brought nothing into the world, and&nbsp;we cannot take anything out of the world;&nbsp;but if we have food and clothing, with these we shall be content.&nbsp;But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and hurtful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.&nbsp;For the love of money is the root of all evils; it is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced their hearts with many pangs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as for you, man of God, shun all this; aim at righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.&nbsp;Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.&nbsp;In the presence of God who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession,&nbsp;I charge you to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ;&nbsp;and this will be made manifest at the proper time by the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,&nbsp;who alone has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;1 Timothy 6:6-16<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Good morning and happy Saturday from Northern Maine <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hOYhEsTq6o\">pic.twitter.com\/hOYhEsTq6o<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dogman (@Dogman1013) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Dogman1013\/status\/2060670260970160238?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 30, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is great gain in godliness with contentment;&nbsp;for we brought nothing into the world, and&nbsp;we cannot take anything out of the world;&nbsp;but if we have food and clothing, with these we shall be content.&nbsp;But those who desire to be rich<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145508\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145510,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145508\/revisions\/145510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}