{"id":6561,"date":"2018-11-07T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=6561"},"modified":"2018-11-06T15:37:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T22:37:52","slug":"not-a-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/not-a-star\/","title":{"rendered":"NOT A STAR!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2 Peter 1:19<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, in which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning\u00a0star\u00a0rises in your hearts<\/em><em>.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Back in my childhood days, the radio program\u00a0<em>Superman<\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>was introduced with the dramatic declaration,\u00a0<em>\u201cLook! Up in the sky! It\u2019s a bird! No, it\u2019s a plane!\u00a0<strong>No! It\u2019s Superman!&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The words\u00a0<em>star<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>satellite<\/em>\u00a0are often used as synonyms. They are not the same. I just observed the International Space Station glide silently across the sky. It appeared as the brightest star in the early morning darkness, but I knew it was a satellite.<\/p>\n<p>The difference between a star and satellite is that the star produces its own light while a satellite merely reflects the light from a star. Many people try to be the star of their own life. They will always fail since God alone is the Light!<\/p>\n<p>The next time you feel a little self important, just remember that you are not, nor will you ever be, a star. God calls us to be spiritual satellites to reflect His glory to a dark world.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings dear hearts! May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Peter 1:19 \u201cAnd so we have the prophetic word confirmed, in which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning\u00a0star\u00a0rises in your hearts.\u201d Back in my childhood days, the radio program\u00a0Superman\u00a0was introduced with the dramatic declaration,\u00a0\u201cLook! Up in the sky! It\u2019s [&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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-peter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561","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=6561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}