{"id":2486,"date":"2012-12-09T09:11:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T13:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2486"},"modified":"2012-12-10T22:47:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T02:47:32","slug":"it-is-not-a-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2486","title":{"rendered":"It is not a thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>O my God, incline Your ear and hear&#8230;for we do not present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great mercies.\u00a0\u00a0O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and act!\u00a0\u00a0 Daniel 9:18-19<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The saints through the ages would all testify that it is incumbent upon us to give the Lord our very best, all the while understanding that our very best does not earn our salvation.\u00a0 But it needs to be said that our salvation is not a commodity; it is not a <em>thing<\/em> to be earned, or even received as a gift.\u00a0 Our salvation is a Person, a relationship with the Lord Himself made possible because of His great mercy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O my God, incline Your ear and hear&#8230;for we do not present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great mercies.\u00a0\u00a0O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and act!\u00a0\u00a0 Daniel 9:18-19 The saints through the ages would all testify that it is incumbent upon us to give &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2486\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It is not a thing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}