{"id":1776,"date":"2009-10-10T12:08:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T19:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2009-10-10T12:08:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T19:08:26","slug":"a-blank-check-for-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/a-blank-check-for-love\/","title":{"rendered":"A Blank Check for Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of commitments toward Himself does God require of me?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Love Him with all (Matthew 22:37)\n<li>If I love, then also obey (John 14:15)\n<li>Seek Him first, also His kingdom (Matthew 6:33; Colossians 3:1,2)\n<li>My body (Romans 12:1; 6:13)\n<li>Live His life (Galatians 2:20; 5:25)\n<li>Absolute dependence (John 15:5)\n<li>Take up my cross daily and follow (Luke 9:23)<\/ul>\n<p>Can I trust Him and love Him enough to stick my neck way out and give Him a blank check?<\/p>\n<p>Dare I say, &#8220;Lord, whatever You tell me to do, I will do my best to do&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><i>Source:<\/i> notes from a talk I gave at my home congregation &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptists.org\/churches\/hopewell.html\">Hopewell Mennonite Church<\/a> &#8212; on Sunday, May 28, 2006.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of commitments toward Himself does God require of me? Love Him with all (Matthew 22:37) If I love, then also obey (John 14:15) Seek Him first, also His kingdom (Matthew 6:33; Colossians 3:1,2) My body (Romans 12:1; 6:13) Live His life (Galatians 2:20; 5:25) Absolute dependence (John 15:5) Take up my cross daily &#8230; <a title=\"A Blank Check for Love\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/a-blank-check-for-love\/\" aria-label=\"More on A Blank Check for Love\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-lessons-for-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-sE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}