{"id":11720,"date":"2024-01-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11720"},"modified":"2024-01-15T15:54:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T22:54:32","slug":"serving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11720","title":{"rendered":"Serving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One God<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 18 January 2024<\/h1>\n\n\n
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The Things That Make Life<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joyous<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are the Simplest,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Free For the Noticing<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First Kings 18:21<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elijah then came near to all the people, and said, \u2018How long will you go limping with two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.\u2019 The people did not answer him a word.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew 6:24<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Words of Grace For Today<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Today\u2019s world, as it always has been, promises that if we serve the \u2018godlet\u2019 of greed, money, and power, we will live a meaningful and happy life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That \u2018godlet\u2019 competes in most people\u2019s hearts with their fear and love of God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and thus most people are very unhappy, dissatisfied with this life for there is never enough money to secure happiness. There is only enough money to make one deluded that happiness is just around the next corner, where more money is available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God comes and heals us of our every ill, including our fever of chasing wealth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also this day,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

we pray, come heal us, that we may know the joy God provides to us each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One God Thursday 18 January 2024 The Things That Make Life Joyous Are the Simplest, And Free For the Noticing First Kings 18:21 Elijah then came near to all the people, and said, \u2018How long will you go limping with two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow … Continue reading “Serving”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,23,91,39,47,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cold","category-lake","category-shore","category-sky","category-trees","category-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11724,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11720\/revisions\/11724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}