{"id":3938,"date":"2014-08-19T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=3938"},"modified":"2014-08-19T14:12:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T21:12:43","slug":"save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/save\/","title":{"rendered":"SAVE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2\u00a0Timothy 2:1-2<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.<\/em><em>\u00a0And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I first started using the computer, I did not discipline myself to consistently\u00a0<em>save<\/em>\u00a0the material I was working on \u2014 one of the most distressing things to encounter is to lose material you have worked on for days, weeks, months, or even years. I want to tell you from personal experience, it wrenches your insides. All that work and suddenly it was gone!<\/p>\n<p>People with much more computer experience had cautioned me about the importance of using the\u00a0<em>save\u00a0<\/em>feature. Losing valuable work was the best teacher, but by then I had suffered loss. I have since taken steps to insure that my material is backed up off site so that I can rest assured of recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Spiritually we face a much greater threat. Believers try to teach the necessity of being saved, but all too often our pleas go unheeded. In many cases I fear it is too late to be saved. Death is certain, but it is often sudden and without warning.<\/p>\n<p>In order to spend eternity in heaven with God, we must be saved. It is more than knowing the Bible \u2014 it is surrendering our self-centered will to allow Jesus Christ to come into our heart and\u00a0<em>save<\/em>\u00a0us. If you have never personally applied the\u00a0<em>save\u00a0<\/em>feature that the blood of Jesus provides, I urge you to be\u00a0<em>saved<\/em>\u00a0today while there is still time.<\/p>\n<p>May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2\u00a0Timothy 2:1-2 You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.\u00a0And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others. When I first started using the computer, I did not discipline myself to consistently\u00a0save\u00a0the [&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":[21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-timothy","category-daily-e-votionals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938","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=3938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}