{"id":2204,"date":"2011-08-13T07:10:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T14:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2011-08-13T07:10:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T14:10:03","slug":"readiness-having-what-it-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2011\/readiness-having-what-it-takes\/","title":{"rendered":"Readiness: Having What It Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know Desmond Bishopnotes. I&#8217;m more interested in most supper bowls than I am in any Super Bowl. And I&#8217;m no cheerleader (though I should be a much better prayer leader) for President Obama. But this, in my estimation, is a disappointing loss:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the Green Bay Packers visited the White House on Friday to celebrate the team&#8217;s Super Bowl title, linebacker Desmond Bishopnotes wasn&#8217;t with his teammates. He had forgotten his license on the team charter plane and without a license, there&#8217;s no getting past White House security.<\/p>\n<p><i>Source:<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/blog\/shutdown_corner\/post\/Packers-linebacker-forgets-ID-can-8217-t-get-i?urn=nfl-wp5018\">Packers linebacker forgets ID, can\u2019t get into White House<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t matter who he is.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t matter what he&#8217;d accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t matter how far he&#8217;d come.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t matter with whom he was.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t matter that he knew the requirements for admission.<\/p>\n<p><b>He wasn&#8217;t ready. He didn&#8217;t meet all the requirements.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>And his experience made me think of this man&#8217;s experience:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left:25px\"><span class=\"verse\">&#8220;And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth&#8221;<\/span> (Matthew 22:11-13).<\/div>\n<p>Other Biblical passages fit as well. Please use the comment section below to add one(s) that come to your mind.<\/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>I don&#8217;t know Desmond Bishopnotes. I&#8217;m more interested in most supper bowls than I am in any Super Bowl. And I&#8217;m no cheerleader (though I should be a much better prayer leader) for President Obama. But this, in my estimation, is a disappointing loss: When the Green Bay Packers visited the White House on Friday &#8230; <a title=\"Readiness: Having What It Takes\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2011\/readiness-having-what-it-takes\/\" aria-label=\"More on Readiness: Having What It Takes\">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":[4,12,20],"tags":[72,686],"class_list":["post-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-lessons-for-living","category-youve-been-warned","tag-christianity","tag-faith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-zy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204","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=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}