{"id":1453,"date":"2010-09-29T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2020-02-05T12:10:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T20:10:29","slug":"a-mellow-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/a-mellow-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"A MELLOW FELLOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Proverbs 16:18-19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\">\u201cPride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Better to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you are treated to people who are honest enough to really confess their foibles and faults. I once heard a song evangelist share a humorous, but revealing, insight into his life.<\/p>\n<p>He shared that following a service when he had sung his heart out and people were showering him with compliments, one lady commented, \u201cThank you so much for that wonderful song. You have one of the most mellow voices I have ever heard.\u201d After he returned home he went to his office to look up the meaning of the word \u201cmellow\u201d so he could savor her compliment. To his dismay it read: \u201cMellow: ripe and getting rotten.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I only wish that we could all be greeted with that type of definition any time we think too highly of ourselves. As a matter of fact, we should make every effort to pursue a spirit of humility.<\/p>\n<p>How do we accomplish this? It is a life-long endeavor. It is far too easy to accept the praises of others. Both Joseph before Pharaoh and Daniel before Nebuchadnezzar refused to take credit for interpretation of dreams or visions. It was only God who was responsible. It is the same for us. Any little thing that we do should always be done for the Lord. To Him be the glory! <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;\u00a0Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>360-570-0074<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:PastorCecil@DailyEVotional.com\">PastorCecil@Daily-E-Votional.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>P.S. &#8211; You can find previous E-Votionals covering a variety of Scriptures and topics to help you in your walk with the Lord at <a href=\"mhtml:{AAB07668-BE98-4E79-91A6-F44F3CA7B6C5}mid:\/\/00000135\/!x-usc:https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/\">www.Daily-E-Votional.com<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Special Note:<\/strong> I have completed a book, \u201c100 of Pastor Cecil\u2019s Select Illustrations.\u201d Information on ordering copies will be sent out in the next few days. It may be a thoughtful gift idea for those who do not have Internet access.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proverbs 16:18-19 \u201cPride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Better to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.\u201d Sometimes you are treated to people who are honest enough to really confess their foibles and faults. I once heard a song evangelist share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proverbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}