{"id":49,"date":"2005-11-04T08:05:16","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T15:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=49"},"modified":"2007-11-25T19:49:48","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T04:49:48","slug":"to-be-or-not-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2005\/to-be-or-not-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"To Be or Not to Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i><font color=brown>&#8220;Be ye followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour&#8221;<\/font><\/i><\/b> (Ephesians 5:1,2).<\/p>\n<p><b><i><font color=brown>&#8220;For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord,: walk as children of light&#8221;<\/font><\/i><\/b> (Ephesians 5:8).<\/p>\n<p><b><i><font color=brown>&#8220;See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise&#8221;<\/font><\/i><\/b> (Ephesians 5:15).<\/p>\n<p>Follower of God and child of God &#8212; that is my identity, that is what I <i>am<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>What I am determines how I walk &#8212; in love (2), in light (8), in carefulness (15).<\/p>\n<p>Is it unrealistic of God to expect me to place each step that way?<\/p>\n<p>No. No, it isn&#8217;t unrealistic of Him. Because the greatest reality of all is that He made (and makes!) provision for me to be and to walk. Notice a few more verses from this chapter:<\/p>\n<p><b><i><font color=brown>&#8220;Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing to water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish&#8221;<\/font><\/i><\/b> (25-27).<\/p>\n<p>Wow!<\/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;Be ye followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour&#8221; (Ephesians 5:1,2). &#8220;For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord,: walk as children of light&#8221; [&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-49","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-N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","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=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}