{"id":5098,"date":"2019-11-02T06:33:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T14:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upstreamteens.org\/blog\/?p=5098"},"modified":"2019-11-04T06:20:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T14:20:19","slug":"november-2nd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/upstreamteens.org\/blog\/2019\/11\/november-2nd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"November 2nd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Ecclesiastes+2&#038;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Ecclesiastes 2 (opens in a new tab)\">Ecclesiastes 2<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n  <p>\u201cTo the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.\u201d <\/p>\n<cite>-Ecclesiastes 2:26 (NIV)<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p>(4 minutes and 15 seconds of <a href=\"http:\/\/upstreamteens.org\/audio\/Ecclesiastes-02.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"archived audio (opens in a new tab)\">archived audio<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read Ecclesiastes 2: \u201cTo the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. 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