{"id":4605,"date":"2016-03-10T08:16:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T13:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/?p=4605"},"modified":"2016-03-10T08:16:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T13:16:53","slug":"our-homes-a-place-of-rest-or-distress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/2016\/03\/10\/our-homes-a-place-of-rest-or-distress\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Homes – A Place of Rest or Distress?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee<\/span>, that it may be well with thee?” Ruth 3:1<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Reading the above verse this morning reminded me of a portion of our pastor’s message last night as he\u00a0warned of continual\u00a0drama in the home. Naomi is speaking of finding a husband for Ruth (her daughter-in-law whose husband had died)\u00a0and she describes this as seeking rest for her. In other words, finding a husband and therefore a home for Ruth would bring her rest.<\/p>\n

I have heard it said that our homes should be a little\u00a0“heaven on earth” for our families. As ladies, are we doing our part to make that happen? Things will not bring us happiness – for ourselves or our homes. But a heart that is in tune with the Lord will bring joy to those around them. Just a little thought this morning…<\/p>\n

“Better is a dry morsel, and quietness<\/span> therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.” Proverbs 17:1\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?” Ruth 3:1 Reading the above verse this morning reminded me of a portion of our pastor’s message last night as he\u00a0warned of continual\u00a0drama in the home. Naomi is speaking of finding a husband for Ruth (her daughter-in-law whose husband had died)\u00a0and she describes this as seeking rest for her. In other words, finding a husband and therefore a home for Ruth would bring her rest. I have heard it said that our homes should be a little\u00a0“heaven on earth” for our families. As ladies, are we doing our part to make that happen? Things will not bring us happiness – for ourselves or our homes. But a heart that is in tune with the Lord will bring joy to those around them. Just a little thought this morning… “Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.” Proverbs 17:1\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,48,65,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courtshipmarriage","category-peace","category-relationships","category-the-virtuous-woman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-1ch","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4606,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions\/4606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}