{"id":196,"date":"2006-05-02T05:08:06","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T13:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=196"},"modified":"2009-03-27T09:12:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T17:12:45","slug":"looking-for-commendation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2006\/looking-for-commendation\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Commendation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like people to commend me. Sometimes I even try to do or say things that will cause people to commend me. That (in my view) is almost as bad as commending myself.<\/p>\n<p>At times, though, the commendation and approval I receive has no value. Because I do not deserve it.<\/p>\n<p>But what about this:<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (2 Corinthians 10:18).<\/p>\n<p>Just how much do I want <i>His<\/i> approval?<\/p>\n<p>And what am I willing to do and be in order to gain it?<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if anything I did or said or was yesterday &#8220;earned&#8221; God&#8217;s commendation.<\/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 like people to commend me. Sometimes I even try to do or say things that will cause people to commend me. That (in my view) is almost as bad as commending myself. At times, though, the commendation and approval I receive has no value. Because I do not deserve it. But what about this: [&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":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-2-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-3a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","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=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}