{"id":617,"date":"2008-08-27T06:50:58","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T13:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=617"},"modified":"2008-08-27T06:50:58","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T13:50:58","slug":"an-open-tender-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2008\/an-open-tender-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open, Tender Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=150 border=0 cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 bgcolor=\"#003300\" align=right align=texttop>\n<tr>\n<td><b><font color=\"#339933\">Reading:<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">Proverbs 13:13-35<\/font><br \/>\n<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I want!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to be stubborn.<\/p>\n<p>Or close-minded.<\/p>\n<p>Or arrogant.<\/p>\n<p>Or hard.<\/p>\n<p>Or insensitive.<\/p>\n<p>Or unapproachable.<\/p>\n<p>Or incorrigible.<\/p>\n<p>Or defensive.<\/p>\n<p>Or self-justifying.<\/p>\n<p>Do you?<\/p>\n<p>So how do you and I respond to instruction and reproof?<\/p>\n<p>How do we take correction and discipline?<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (18).<\/p>\n<p>Like I said, I want an open, tender heart&#8230;toward instruction&#8230;and toward reproof.<\/p>\n<p>So when you see me in the wrong, please correct me.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me the right way to be and the right way to live.<\/p>\n<p><b>Do not let me continue in my error!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/afaithfulambassador-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/afaithfulambassador-s.jpg\" alt=\"[A faithful ambassador is health (Proverbs 13:17)]\" title=\"A faithful ambassador is health (Proverbs 13:17)\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>from Proverbs 13:17<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>A little bit more from Proverbs 13:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/cgi-bin\/webbbs\/lift\/lift.cgi?read=8669\"><font color=green>What Is Your Lot?<\/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: Proverbs 13:13-35 That&#8217;s what I want! 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