It’s been a long day after a short night. I had proverbial “last minute” end-of-the-year business stuff to tend to all day yesterday. I finished what I wanted to be sure to do at about 11:55.<\/p>\n
Then this morning I needed to prepare to teach a men’s Sunday School class on the subject of “God Prepares Leaders.”<\/p>\n
This afternoon we had company. And I also needed to prepare for a talk in our evening service, giving an overview of what the Epistles teach on the subject of our finances and our lifestyles.<\/p>\n
So I’m not getting to this till almost ten at night.<\/p>\n
“And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full”<\/font><\/b> (1 John 1:4).<\/p>\n God’s Word to us is for our joy! Even the so-called “don’ts” and the so-called “negatives”!<\/p>\n Somehow that really blessed me when I read it tonight.<\/p>\n Jesus also said, “These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full”<\/font><\/b> (John 15:11).<\/p>\n Now if I can read and meditate and obey with that perspective of God’s purpose for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been a long day after a short night. I had proverbial “last minute” end-of-the-year business stuff to tend to all day yesterday. I finished what I wanted to be sure to do at about 11:55. Then this morning I needed to prepare to teach a men’s Sunday School class on the subject of “God […]<\/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":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-1-john","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-1K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}