{"id":434,"date":"2007-07-14T06:48:21","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T13:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=434"},"modified":"2007-07-14T06:50:32","modified_gmt":"2007-07-14T13:50:32","slug":"simeon-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2007\/simeon-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Simeon. Me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Reading: Luke 2:21-35<\/b><\/p>\n<p>He held the Lord in his arms when He was an eight-day-old baby, knowing He was the long-awaited Messiah.<\/p>\n<p>Wow!<\/p>\n<p>However, in my reading this morning, this verse fragment caught my attention:<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;And he came by the Spirit into the temple&#8230;&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (27).<\/p>\n<p>I want to be like Simeon that way &#8212; propel-able and stear-able by God&#8217;s Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Not just to the meeting place of God&#8217;s people.<\/p>\n<p>But wherever God wants me to be at any given time.<\/p>\n<p>That only comes from continual surrender to Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>And from ongoing contact with Him.<\/p>\n<p>And growing in awareness of Him.<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (Proverbs 3:6).<\/p>\n<p>And this:<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (Psalm 32:8).<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the life for me!<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/alighttolighten-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/alighttolighten-s.jpg\" alt=\"[A light to lighten the Gentiles (Luke 2:32)]\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><i>from Luke 2:32<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>A little bit more from Luke 2:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/cgi-bin\/webbbs\/lift\/lift.cgi?read=8025\"><font color=green>Salvation Prepared for All<\/font><\/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>Reading: Luke 2:21-35 He held the Lord in his arms when He was an eight-day-old baby, knowing He was the long-awaited Messiah. Wow! However, in my reading this morning, this verse fragment caught my attention: &#8220;And he came by the Spirit into the temple&#8230;&#8221; (27). I want to be like Simeon that way &#8212; propel-able [&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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-luke","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-70","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","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=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}