{"id":3258,"date":"2019-06-21T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=3258"},"modified":"2019-06-15T19:53:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T23:53:24","slug":"a-little-silver-can-ruin-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/a-little-silver-can-ruin-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Silver Can Ruin Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-html-block\"><iframe title=\"A Little Silver Can Ruin Your Life 6\/21\/19\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/icuc4-b4aa48?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/icuc4-b4aa48?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1\" height=\"122\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong><u>One day a certain rich man who lived a miserable life visited a rabbi<\/u>.<\/strong> The rabbi took the rich man by the hand and led him to a window. &#8220;Look out there,&#8221; he said. The rich man looked into the street, <em>&#8220;What do you see?&#8221; ask<\/em>ed the rabbi.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I see men, women, and children,&#8221;<\/em> answered the rich man.<\/p>\n<p>Again the rabbi took him by the hand and this time led him to a mirror. <em>\u201cNow what do you see?&#8221;<br \/><\/em><br \/><em>&#8220;Now I see myself,&#8221;<\/em> the rich man replied.<\/p>\n<p>Then the rabbi said, <strong><em>&#8220;Behold, in the window there is a glass, and in the mirror there is a glass. <u>But the glass of the mirror is covered with a little silver<\/u>, <u>and no sooner is the silver added than you cease to see others<\/u>, <u>and you see only yourself.<\/u>&#8220;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>Jesus told them this parable<\/u>: <em>\u201cThe ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest.  He thought to himself, \u2018What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>\u201cThen he said, \u2018This is what I\u2019ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. And I\u2019ll say to myself, \u201cYou have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>\u201c<u>But God said to him<\/u>, <strong>\u2018You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?\u2019   <\/strong><u>A God Alert<br \/><\/u><br \/><\/em><em>\u201cThis is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich in the things that matter <br \/>to God.\u201d  <\/em><u><br \/><\/u><br \/>Luke 12: 16-21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; One day a certain rich man who lived a miserable life visited a rabbi. The rabbi took the rich man by the hand and led him to a window. &#8220;Look out there,&#8221; he said. The rich man looked into the street, &#8220;What do you see?&#8221; asked the rabbi. &#8220;I see men, women, and children,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"qubely_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1560642493_featured.png",150,150,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1560642493_featured.png",150,150,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1560642493_featured.png",150,150,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1560642493_featured.png",150,150,false],"medium":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1560642493_featured.png",150,150,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1560642493_featured.png",150,150,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1560642493_featured.png",150,150,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1560642493_featured.png",150,150,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1560642493_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-m":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1560642493_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-ml":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1560642493_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-l":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1560642493_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1560642493_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_portrait":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1560642493_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1560642493_featured.png",100,100,false],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1560642493_featured-45x45.png",45,45,true]},"qubely_author":{"display_name":"Medard Laz","author_link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/author\/medlaz\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/category\/daily-treats\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Daily Treats<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"&nbsp; One day a certain rich man who lived a miserable life visited a rabbi. 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