{"id":6786,"date":"2019-03-14T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=6786"},"modified":"2019-03-14T12:02:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T19:02:13","slug":"pi-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/pi-day\/","title":{"rendered":"PI DAY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2 Timothy 4:2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>Preach the word! Be ready in season\u00a0and\u00a0out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.\u201d<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pi<\/strong>\u00a0(Greek letter \u2018\u03c0\u2019), is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant \u2014 the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter \u2014 which is approximately 3.14159.\u00a0March 14, or 3\/14, is also my birthday, as it also was my grandmother\u2019s.\u00a0Since I was born on\u00a0<strong>Pi<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Day<\/strong>\u00a0may explain why I like pie better than cake!<\/p>\n<p>There are so many things that I fall short of achieving in my 85 years on this earth. One thing is very clear; I have lived far more years than those years that lie before me. It really is not my decision just how many more days, weeks, months or years I have left to live. I do, however, have a choice as to how I will live those days &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; I choose to live them for the Lord!<\/p>\n<p>As I write these words I suddenly am overwhelmed with the reality that even the youngest person who receives these words has no idea how long they have to live. It may be at any moment that our earthly life will end and eternity will begin.<\/p>\n<p>On this\u00a0<strong>Pi Day,\u00a0<\/strong>my 85<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0birthday, I commit myself to follow Paul\u2019s admonition to Timothy. I will strive to be ready in season and out of season to convince, rebuke, exhort for those who listen, to receive Christ as personal Savior and then grow in His grace!<\/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>2 Timothy 4:2 \u201cPreach the word! Be ready in season\u00a0and\u00a0out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.\u201d\u00a0 Pi\u00a0(Greek letter \u2018\u03c0\u2019), is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant \u2014 the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter \u2014 which is approximately 3.14159.\u00a0March 14, or 3\/14, is also [&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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-timothy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786","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=6786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}