{"id":184,"date":"2006-04-18T05:45:51","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T13:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=184"},"modified":"2009-03-27T08:45:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T16:45:53","slug":"do-his-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2006\/do-his-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Do His Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does God want me as a Christian to do?<\/p>\n<p>His work.<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (1 Corinthians 15:58).<\/p>\n<p>When I do the Lord&#8217;s work for Him, I&#8217;m not wasting my time.<\/p>\n<p>What is the Lord&#8217;s work?<\/p>\n<p>Making seeds grow. Keeping atoms from flying apart. Maintaining planetary orbits. Sustaining the animal kingdom. Deciding on the weather, then causing it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m persuaded, though, that Paul didn&#8217;t have that in mind. I&#8217;m sure he meant what God does in the lives of people.<\/p>\n<p>What can I do today in the lives of others?<\/p>\n<p>Smile. Say something kind. Help with their work. Pray for them. Be cheerful. Compliment. Play with them. Show them the Way.<\/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 does God want me as a Christian to do? His work. &#8220;Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord&#8221; (1 Corinthians 15:58). When I do the Lord&#8217;s work for Him, I&#8217;m not [&hellip;]<!-- 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":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-1-corinthians","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-2Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","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=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}