{"id":23511,"date":"2019-12-30T08:36:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T07:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=23511"},"modified":"2019-12-30T08:36:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T07:36:30","slug":"how-much-is-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=23511","title":{"rendered":"How much is (not) enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Sam Kputu<\/strong><br \/>\nYouthfulness comes with many fascinations that fuel your curiosity or ambition. Mine were two: WEALTH, an attraction; and DEATH,\u00a0 a dread.<br \/>\nHow much would one acquire in life that would be enough? OR is life just an endless journey of seeking more? One Marxist I once admired summed it all: &#8220;Unequals war to attain equality; equals scheme to gain superiority. That is the mindset that drives social revolutions&#8221;<br \/>\nThere is a word our world, even Believers, have forgotten, it is called CONTENTMENT &#8220;an emotional state of deep satisfaction that comes from being at ease in one&#8217;s situation&#8221; And this is not accepting all things as one&#8217;s fate ,\u00a0 that would be FATALISM!<br \/>\nTrue CONTENTMENT flows from GODLINESS*; it is an expression of absolute faith in a God who knows, loves, cares, provides and preserves. *&#8221;&#8230;Godliness with contentment is great gain*.\u00a0 For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it&#8230;&#8221; 1Tim.1:6 -11<br \/>\n<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/share\/clipdata_191230_082803_314.sdoc--><br \/>\n\u25aa <strong>Kputu is the International Director of CAPRO, and is based in Lagos.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sam Kputu Youthfulness comes with many fascinations that fuel your curiosity or ambition. Mine were two: WEALTH, an attraction; and DEATH,\u00a0 a dread. How much would one acquire in life that would be enough? OR is life just an endless journey of seeking more? One Marxist I once admired summed it all: &#8220;Unequals war [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":23512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[630,631],"class_list":["post-23511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith","tag-contentment","tag-godliness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}