{"id":2763,"date":"2013-03-07T09:48:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T13:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2763"},"modified":"2013-03-10T10:11:26","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T14:11:26","slug":"totally-incompatible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2763","title":{"rendered":"Totally incompatible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;You offer defiled food on My altar, But you say, \u2018In what way have we defiled You?\u2019 By saying, \u2018The table of the Lord is contemptible.\u2019\u00a0And when you offer the blind as a sacrifice, is it not evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? Offer it then to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? \u00a0Would he accept you favorably?&#8221;, says the Lord of hosts.\u00a0\u00a0 Malachi 1:7-8<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to do your best?\u00a0 To give your best?\u00a0 &#8220;Give of\u00a0your best to the Master&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t going about my Christian life in a half-hearted way a lame sacrifice?\u00a0 If I give him my best, or try to, I don&#8217;t win points with God.\u00a0 Rather, I become a more authentic follower of Christ.\u00a0 After all, insincerity and luke-warmness are totally incompatible with Christianity.\u00a0 Totally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You offer defiled food on My altar, But you say, \u2018In what way have we defiled You?\u2019 By saying, \u2018The table of the Lord is contemptible.\u2019\u00a0And when you offer the blind as a sacrifice, is it not evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? Offer it then to your &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2763\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Totally incompatible&#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\/2763"}],"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=2763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2764,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions\/2764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}