{"id":4263,"date":"2022-09-21T22:22:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T03:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nazareneblogs.org\/pastorscott\/?p=4263"},"modified":"2022-09-21T22:22:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T03:22:09","slug":"devotional-on-leviticus-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-leviticus-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Leviticus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-8g5OTSnovzg\/XS9eyBftVnI\/AAAAAAAA9WU\/MkDwXHLsXB03RmJg0blV0dxCeVqW5AvOwCKgBGAs\/s1600\/100_2887.JPG\" width=\"1600\" height=\"901\" class=\"size-large\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2014 &#8211; Day trip to Vancouver, BC<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nGrace plus grace<br \/>\nLeviticus 20: Set yourselves apart for a holy life\u2026I am God who makes you holy.<br \/>\nWhich is it?  Am I holy because I consecrate myself to God or is it because he works in my life making me holy?  You know that the answer is simply, \u201cboth.\u201d   The Lord works on both sides of this issue while I\u2019m in the middle.  He makes it possible for me to share in his holiness through his living in and through me.  He also makes it possible for me to accept his gracious offer to fill my life, creating in me the capability to choose him over myself.  On one hand, there&#8217;s God, ready and willing to \u201cmake\u201d me holy.  On the other hand, why, there&#8217;s God again.  He makes it possible for me to say \u201cyes\u201d to this gracious offer.  I\u2019m in the middle.  If I refuse this grace-filled offer, I open the doors to the possibility of all the horrible things described in Leviticus 20.  If I accept it, if I take advantage of this grace plus grace offer, I open the way for God\u2019s life \u2013 his holiness \u2013 to be lived out in me.<br \/>\nTake Away: The Lord not only makes me holy; he makes it possible for me to want to be holy in the first place..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace plus grace Leviticus 20: Set yourselves apart for a holy life\u2026I am God who makes you holy. Which is it? Am I holy because I consecrate myself to God or is it because he works in my life making me holy? You know that the answer is simply, \u201cboth.\u201d The Lord works on both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1513,7],"tags":[140,518,554,857],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13920,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions\/13920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}