{"id":48,"date":"2005-11-02T08:09:26","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T15:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=48"},"modified":"2007-11-25T19:49:42","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T04:49:42","slug":"a-life-that-fits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2005\/a-life-that-fits\/","title":{"rendered":"A Life That Fits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i><font color=brown>&#8220;I . . . beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called&#8221;<\/font><\/i><\/b> (Ephesians 4:1).<\/p>\n<p>I have been called to life in Jesus. Now I must live in a way that fits that vocation, that calling.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, verses two and three add to the thought and context, stressing some character traits that fit my calling in Jesus: lowliness, meekness, longsuffering, forbearance, love, unity.<\/p>\n<p>Living a life fitting of Jesus could not be more unnatural to me. But that&#8217;s OK. I&#8217;m heartened again by verse 7:<\/p>\n<p><b><i><font color=brown>&#8220;But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.&#8221;<\/font><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>By His grace I can &#8220;walk worthy&#8221; &#8212; live a life that fits.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of grace, as I noted yesterday, I can be a channel of grace to others. This concept comes through again in verse 29:<\/p>\n<p><b><i><font color=brown>&#8220;Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.&#8221;<\/font><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>By my speech I can build up others so that they too may walk worthy of their calling in Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t do that much. \ud83d\ude41<\/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>&#8220;I . . . beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called&#8221; (Ephesians 4:1). I have been called to life in Jesus. Now I must live in a way that fits that vocation, that calling. Interestingly, verses two and three add to the thought and context, stressing some character traits [&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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ephesians","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","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=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}