{"id":5569,"date":"2017-03-14T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=5569"},"modified":"2017-03-13T11:55:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T18:55:06","slug":"only-one-life-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/only-one-life-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ONLY ONE LIFE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Matthew 5:16<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201cLet your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today, March 14,\u00a0 (3\/14), is Pi day. Pi is defined as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter\u2014 which is approximately 3.14159. You certainly cannot prove that by me. I always struggled with math and must rely on this definition.<\/p>\n<p>The thing that I celebrate on 3\/14 is my birthday. That\u2019s right \u2026 I have arrived at another milestone in my life as I celebrate my 83<sup>rd<\/sup> birthday. Looking back over the years of my life I am so thankful that I received Christ as my personal Savior as a young boy, and I have loved Him through these many years.<\/p>\n<p>There is a poem by missionary C.T. Studd that is so familiar many people think that it comes from the Bible. These words are repeated in each stanza of the poem: <em>\u201cOnly one life,\u2019twill soon be past, Only what\u2019s done for Christ will last.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The truth in that statement is deep and profound. When we weigh the fleeting pleasures of this life against the reality of eternity, we discover that all the things that people waste their efforts on will pass away. Only the things we do for Christ will echo down the ages of time when we are all gathered in God\u2019s eternal kingdom!<\/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>Matthew 5:16 \u201cLet your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.\u201d Today, March 14,\u00a0 (3\/14), is Pi day. Pi is defined as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter\u2014 which is approximately 3.14159. You certainly cannot prove that by me. [&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-5569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matthew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569","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=5569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}