{"id":5648,"date":"2017-04-24T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=5648"},"modified":"2017-04-24T11:24:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T18:24:26","slug":"kiss-keep-it-simple-sweetie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/kiss-keep-it-simple-sweetie\/","title":{"rendered":"KISS (keep it simple sweetie)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1\u00a0Corinthians 1:27<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty<\/em><em>.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you ever feel that you are not smart enough, or popular enough, or from the right kind of family to do God&#8217;s work in an effective manner, read today&#8217;s Scripture passage once again.\u00a0 Who does God choose?\u00a0 The foolish and the weak &#8212; that describes me!<\/p>\n<p>Jesus did not teach on a theological level, yet His clear and simple teaching has confounded doctors of theology across the centuries. He was the creator of the world, yet His ministry was extremely simple.<\/p>\n<p>He did not intend for people to be mentally brilliant in order to know Him personally.\u00a0 It was and always has been this simple:<em> Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>You notice in the acronym KISS that I stated it differently than we ordinarily see it.\u00a0 It is not <em>Keep It Simple Stupid<\/em> but<em> Keep It Simple Sweetie<\/em>!\u00a0 We do not need to demean one another with words that insult, but let us encourage each other with words that convey love and respect!<\/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>1\u00a0Corinthians 1:27 \u201cBut God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty.\u201d If you ever feel that you are not smart enough, or popular enough, or from the right kind [&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-5648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-corinthians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648","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=5648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}