{"id":1584,"date":"2012-04-24T08:01:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T12:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2012-04-24T08:01:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T12:01:17","slug":"psalm-75-real-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1584","title":{"rendered":"(Psalm 75) Real success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For exaltation comes neither from the east nor from the west nor from the south.\u00a0But God is the Judge: He puts down one, and exalts another.\u00a0For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is fully mixed, and He pours it out.\u00a0 Surely its dregs shall all the wicked of the earth drain and drink down.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>God is indeed sovereign, and His kingdom rules over all.\u00a0 This means that we don&#8217;t determine our destiny all by ourselves.\u00a0 If we are successful in life, we should not boast about our business savvy, or our good looks, or our ability to take risks and be decisive.\u00a0 God is the Judge.\u00a0 We should rather be\u00a0grateful to God for what He has allowed us to\u00a0achieve, and to ask ourselves the really hard question: Has my &#8220;success&#8221; moved me and those I love closer to the Kingdom or further away from it?<\/p>\n<p>The measure of real success after all is\u00a0the size of your heart; it is not the size of your wallet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For exaltation comes neither from the east nor from the west nor from the south.\u00a0But God is the Judge: He puts down one, and exalts another.\u00a0For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is fully mixed, and He pours it out.\u00a0 Surely its dregs shall all &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1584\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Psalm 75) Real success&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1586,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}