{"id":5617,"date":"2017-04-05T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=5617"},"modified":"2017-04-04T14:52:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T21:52:53","slug":"sensitivity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/sensitivity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SENSITIVITY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1 Corinthians 8:13 <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201cTherefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last Saturday, family and friends gathered for the birthday party of my youngest great-granddaughter, Kourtney. As we entered through the front door we saw a pile of shoes in various sizes and colors. It was evident that we were being invited to remove our shoes to keep the floors clean.<\/p>\n<p>It reminded me of the time I spent in Newfoundland, Canada. I think every home I entered they had slipper socks available and there were usually several pairs of shoes from those who had entered.<\/p>\n<p>Over and over I heard protests from the lady of the house to keep my shoes on, but I was equally aware that to be socially sensitive meant that I observed their custom. I always removed my shoes upon entering any home I was invited to, and I received many return invitations. Other men from our Squadron did not heed this custom and were seldom invited back.<\/p>\n<p>Sensitivity (or the lack of it) seems to identify a person\u2019s character. We can damage our Christian image by being unconcerned about what other people find important. To be a true witness we need to sharpen our Christian sensitivity!<\/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>1 Corinthians 8:13 \u201cTherefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.\u201d Last Saturday, family and friends gathered for the birthday party of my youngest great-granddaughter, Kourtney. As we entered through the front door we saw a pile of shoes in various sizes and colors. [&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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-corinthians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617","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=5617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}