{"id":2357,"date":"2012-02-27T18:58:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T02:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2012-02-27T18:58:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T02:58:22","slug":"unobserved-under-the-threshold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2012\/unobserved-under-the-threshold\/","title":{"rendered":"Unobserved Under the Threshold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obedience to God could be quite tedious.<\/p>\n<p>What an unfortunate, unhappy, unfulfilling disposition to have!<\/p>\n<p>Better this: <span class=\"verse\">&#8220;I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart&#8221; <\/span>(Psalm 40:8).<\/p>\n<p>With that background, this:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If there is ignorance on that point, then we will think it a light thing to disobey on a &#8220;small&#8221; matter like allowing yourself to make that crude remark or to grumble a bit or to have that third piece of cake against the check in your spirit. After all, we can always confess it afterward and God will forgive us, right?<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>There are so many things wrong with that posture that it is hard to know where to start.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>That is the little-understood truth that whenever we obey God, in the minutest of matters, though nothing seems to have changed outwardly in our circumstances as a result, the reality is that something has occurred in the invisible world.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Under the threshold of our physical observation, we are, with every choice, either becoming more like Jesus or more like his Enemy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Full article:<\/i> <a href='http:\/\/online.worldmag.com\/2012\/02\/27\/spiritual-dynamic\/'>Spiritual dynamic | Andr\u00e9e Seu<\/a><\/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>Obedience to God could be quite tedious. What an unfortunate, unhappy, unfulfilling disposition to have! Better this: &#8220;I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart&#8221; (Psalm 40:8). With that background, this:<!-- 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":[],"class_list":["post-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-lessons-for-living","category-youve-been-warned"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-C1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","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=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}