{"id":6736,"date":"2019-02-13T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=6736"},"modified":"2019-02-13T19:13:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T03:13:12","slug":"the-right-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/the-right-star\/","title":{"rendered":"THE RIGHT STAR!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Luke 16:10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork.\u201d<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In yesterday\u2019s Daily-E-Votional I talked about the old time \u201cchuck wagon\u201d and the cook\u2019s responsibilities of preparing meals, cleaning, mending, and a host of other tasks that made him the most valued member of the cattle drive. One of his most vital tasks each night was to locate the Pole Star and point the wagon tongue in its direction.<\/p>\n<p>Before I retire each night I go to the front door and gaze into the skies. Even here in the State of Washington, I can usually locate the Pole Star. The other stars change position during the night and throughout the year, but the good ole Pole Star is always in the same position.<\/p>\n<p>It would be ridiculous for me to suggest that people will know the right direction by looking to see where our tongue is pointed, but you may make a connection. Luke 6:45 says:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><strong><em>\u201cA good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0People at\u00a0least should get good directions by our talk and our walk.<\/p>\n<p>Let me close by sharing what the apostle Paul shared with the church at Philippi.\u00a0\u00a0Philippians 4:8:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><strong><em>\u201cFinally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable\u2014if anything is excellent or praiseworthy\u2014think about such things.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span>That is the right star to point to for those around you. Where are you pointing?<\/p>\n<p>Blessings dear hearts!\u00a0\u00a0Walk with God today and be a blessing!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 16:10 \u201cThe heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork.\u201d\u00a0 In yesterday\u2019s Daily-E-Votional I talked about the old time \u201cchuck wagon\u201d and the cook\u2019s responsibilities of preparing meals, cleaning, mending, and a host of other tasks that made him the most valued member of the cattle drive. One of his [&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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-luke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736","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=6736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}