{"id":4851,"date":"2016-01-14T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=4851"},"modified":"2016-01-13T12:59:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T19:59:16","slug":"lost-and-found-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/lost-and-found-3\/","title":{"rendered":"LOST AND FOUND!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Matthew 10:39<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><sup>\u00a0<\/sup><em>He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You may have heard the humorous anecdote of the man who commented, \u201cI now must admit that I believe in the hereafter. It seems like every time I go from one room to another, I stop and ask myself, \u2018What am I here after?\u2019\u201d \u00a0 Ouch! That hits pretty close to home!<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever lost something that has special significance to you? Sometimes it is not the monetary value of a item which makes it precious, but the memories that are associated with it. I recently lost about 20 DVD\u2019s of favorite Christian music that I played before services each Sunday. The only thing I can conclude is that they were accidentally thrown away in the trash after a potluck dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s face it &#8212; the most precious things in this world will someday be lost in one way or another. If we base our happiness and contentment on the things of this world, we will experience disappointment when they are lost, as eventually they will be.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Scripture tells us that if we grasp and hold on to the things of this life, we will lose them. But when we lose our life and the things of this life, we will find LIFE \u2026 real life. That is what I want to seek and hold onto!<\/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\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew 10:39 \u201c\u00a0He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.\u201d You may have heard the humorous anecdote of the man who commented, \u201cI now must admit that I believe in the hereafter. It seems like every time I go from one room to [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matthew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851","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=4851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}