{"id":7050,"date":"2019-08-15T12:45:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T16:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7050"},"modified":"2019-08-04T14:45:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T18:45:55","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-gaining-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7050","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Paisios on Gaining Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026what do you really want, appreciation from Christ or from other people? Don\u2019t you get a greater blessing from recognition by Christ? How does it help you to have the attention of people? If people now recognize the good you have done, then expect to hear in the next life: Thou in thy lifetime received thy good things. We must rejoice when others do not acknowledge our efforts and do not repay us, because then these efforts will be taken into account by God, and He will repay us with an eternal reward. Since there is divine reward, we should try to put aside some drachmas in God\u2019s Treasury. We should accept injustice as a great blessing, because it\u2019s a way of saving towards a heavenly blessing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>~ \u2018Spiritual Struggle\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7051\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1011dscn6949-medium-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1011dscn6949-medium-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1011dscn6949-medium.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026what do you really want, appreciation from Christ or from other people? Don\u2019t you get a greater blessing from recognition by Christ? How does it help you to have the [&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-7050","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\/7050","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=7050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7052,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7050\/revisions\/7052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}