{"id":4986,"date":"2020-08-25T09:20:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T13:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=4986"},"modified":"2020-08-25T09:20:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T13:20:11","slug":"whatever-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4986","title":{"rendered":"Whatever you do"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Moreover, when you are exerting yourselves with energy and fervor, whatever you do, whether laboring diligently in prayer, fasting, or almsgiving, or distributing to the poor, or forgiving injuries,<em> \u201cas God also for Christ\u2019s sake hath forgiven us,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0or subduing evil habits, and chastening the body and bringing it into subjection, or bearing tribulation, and especially bearing with one another in love (for what can he bear who is not patient with his brother?), or guarding against the craft and wiles of the tempter, and by the shield of faith averting and extinguishing his fiery darts,\u00a0or <em>\u201csinging and making melody to the Lord in your hearts,\u201d<\/em> or with voices in harmony with your hearts;&#8212;whatever you do, I say, <em>\u201cdo all to the glory of God,\u201d\u00a0who \u201cworks all in all,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and be so <em>\u201cfervent in Spirit<\/em>\u201d\u00a0that your <em>\u201csoul may make her boast in the Lord.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Such is the course of those who walk in the <em>\u201cstraight way,\u201d<\/em> whose <em>\u201ceyes are ever upon the Lord, for He shall pluck their feet out of the net.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such a course is neither interrupted by business, nor benumbed by leisure, neither boisterous nor languid, neither presumptuous nor desponding, neither reckless nor supine.<em> \u201cThese things do, and the God of peace shall be with you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>St. Augustine<br>Letter XLVIII <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moreover, when you are exerting yourselves with energy and fervor, whatever you do, whether laboring diligently in prayer, fasting, or almsgiving, or distributing to the poor, or forgiving injuries, \u201cas God also for Christ\u2019s sake hath forgiven us,\u201d\u00a0or subduing evil habits, and chastening the body and bringing it into subjection, or bearing tribulation, and especially &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4986\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Whatever you do&#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\/4986"}],"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=4986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4987,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions\/4987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}