{"id":3349,"date":"2014-03-15T08:30:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T12:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2014-03-15T08:30:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T12:30:34","slug":"as-an-offering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3349","title":{"rendered":"As an offering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>2 Corinthians 12:10<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities&#8230;, in needs&#8230;in distresses, for Christ\u2019s sake.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is wrong-headed to think, &#8220;I know I&#8217;ll be able to serve Christ in some way when I&#8217;m feeling better.&#8221;, or, &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a lot on my plate right now, but when things settle down&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 Christ is the Lord of my<em> life <\/em>today, whether I&#8217;m feeling good or not so good, whether I&#8217;m extremely busy or able to relax.\u00a0 So give it to Him.\u00a0 Present it as an offering.\u00a0 Bring a sacrifice of praise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Corinthians 12:10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities&#8230;, in needs&#8230;in distresses, for Christ\u2019s sake. It is wrong-headed to think, &#8220;I know I&#8217;ll be able to serve Christ in some way when I&#8217;m feeling better.&#8221;, or, &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a lot on my plate right now, but when things settle down&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 Christ is the Lord of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3349\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;As an offering&#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\/3349"}],"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=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3350,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions\/3350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}