{"id":649,"date":"2008-09-29T06:29:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T13:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=649"},"modified":"2008-09-29T06:29:12","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T13:29:12","slug":"digging-up-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2008\/digging-up-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Digging Up Evil"},"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 16:23-33<\/font><br \/>\n<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>That sounds pretty bad.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of what too many politicians do, particularly during an election campaign. They try to find &#8220;dirt&#8221; to use against their opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, though, at my first reading of this verse this morning, it reminded me of me!<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (27).<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I listen to a sermon, trying to find what&#8217;s wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I watch what someone does, waiting to see failure.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I look through my computer archives, reviewing another&#8217;s offenses.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I dredge the channels of my memory, remembering evil. And evils done to me.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to be that way!<\/p>\n<p>So here are some guidelines (is that <i>all<\/i> they are?!) for better thinking:<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (Philippians 4:8).<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/pleasantwords-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/pleasantwords-s.jpg\" alt=\"[Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones (Proverbs 16:24)]\" title=\"Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones (Proverbs 16:24)\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>from Proverbs 16:24<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>A little bit more from Proverbs 16:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/cgi-bin\/webbbs\/lift\/lift.cgi?read=8702\"><font color=green>Old, White Hair<\/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 16:23-33 That sounds pretty bad. It reminds me of what too many politicians do, particularly during an election campaign. They try to find &#8220;dirt&#8221; to use against their opponents. Initially, though, at my first reading of this verse this morning, it reminded me of me! &#8220;An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in [&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":[2],"tags":[44],"class_list":{"0":"post-649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-proverbs","7":"tag-live-right","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry","10":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-at","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","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=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}