{"id":4024,"date":"2017-12-05T18:10:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T23:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4024"},"modified":"2017-12-05T18:10:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T23:10:18","slug":"elder-paisios-on-trust-in-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4024","title":{"rendered":"Elder Paisios on Trust in Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSome people say, \u201cI believe God will help me,\u201d and at the same time they try to make lots of money so that they won\u2019t be deprived of anything. These people mock God, because they do not entrust themselves to God, but to money. If they don\u2019t stop loving money and placing their hope in it, they won\u2019t be able to establish their hope in God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not saying that people shouldn\u2019t put some money aside for a time of need; I\u2019m saying that they shouldn\u2019t set their hopes on money and set their heart on it, because this way they forget God. Whoever makes his own plans, without putting his trust in God, and then says that this is how God wants it, is actually blessing his own work in a demonic way and is constantly tormented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4025\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mtathosview-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mtathosview-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mtathosview.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&#8220;Spiritual Struggle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSome people say, \u201cI believe God will help me,\u201d and at the same time they try to make lots of money so that they won\u2019t be deprived of anything. These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4026,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions\/4026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}