{"id":2765,"date":"2013-03-08T10:11:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T14:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2013-03-10T10:20:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T14:20:15","slug":"how-about-your-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2765","title":{"rendered":"How about your heart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;And if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to My name,\u201d says the Lord of hosts, \u201cI will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Malachi 2:2<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You do not take it to heart.\u00a0 This seems to me to be the beginning, the end, and all the middle of a Christian&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>The words from an old Stuart Hamblen song are as true today as they were half a century ago, when as a small boy my mother would stand me in front of the church to sing,\u00a0&#8220;How about your <em>heart<\/em>?\u00a0 Is it right with God? That&#8217;s the thing that counts today.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to My name,\u201d says the Lord of hosts, \u201cI will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Malachi 2:2 You do not take it to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2765\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How about your heart?&#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\/2765"}],"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=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2767,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions\/2767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}