{"id":5404,"date":"2016-12-12T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=5404"},"modified":"2016-12-12T09:24:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T16:24:03","slug":"if-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/if-3\/","title":{"rendered":"IF!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Romans 8:13<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live<\/em><em>.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You may have heard the humorous anecdote about a young man in by-gone days who was writing a love note to his sweetheart: &#8220;<em>My dearest darling, I would climb the highest mountain for you to show my love. I would swim the widest river to show just how much I love you! P.S. &#8211; I will see you this Saturday if it does not rain.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Matthew 21:28-31, Jesus tells the parable of the two sons: <span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><strong><em>\u201cBut what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, \u2018Son, go, work today in my vineyard.\u2019 He answered and said, \u2018I will not,\u2019 but afterward he regretted it and went.<\/em><\/strong><strong><em><sup>\u00a0 <\/sup><\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Then he came to the second and said likewise. And he answered and said, \u2018I go, sir,\u2019 but he did not go.Which of the two did the will of his father?\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There are so many <em>if\u2019s <\/em>in our world that I hardly know where to begin. We often are hesitant to commit ourselves and so we place a conditional <em>if <\/em>on our response. The Lord is anxious for us to obey His Word regardless. No <strong>IF<\/strong> about it!<\/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; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romans 8:13 \u201cFor if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.\u201d You may have heard the humorous anecdote about a young man in by-gone days who was writing a love note to his sweetheart: &#8220;My dearest [&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":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-romans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404","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=5404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}