{"id":7196,"date":"2020-11-15T20:13:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T02:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nazareneblogs.org\/pastorscott\/?p=5318"},"modified":"2020-11-15T20:13:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T02:13:35","slug":"devotional-on-isaiah-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-isaiah-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Isaiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-M6mC2jyakwQ\/X7BILZ2FulI\/AAAAAAABHno\/YulXlaGTqw865NuZkmLUCaggTrVc-MWRACPcBGAsYHg\/s400\/09garden_of_gods.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-large\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2003 &#8211; Colorado<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nChecking the church calendar<br \/>\nIsaiah 1: Meetings, meetings, meetings, I can&#8217;t stand one more!<br \/>\nAs a pastor I admit that this phrase resonates with me!  In this case, though, it\u2019s God who\u2019s talking and he&#8217;s weary of his people going through the motions, filling their lives with meetings and other religious activity, but never simply getting about the business of righteous living.  Sometimes, I think, religious activity is a cover up for spiritual failure or it may be a substitute for actually going out and making a difference in the world.  There&#8217;s a time for meetings but those meetings are to move us to real living in the Lord.  I fear that we church folk attend a committee meeting and think we\u2019ve done what Jesus intended we do.  In some cases, we&#8217;d be better off to drop the meeting and get out into the real world, making a difference in people&#8217;s lives for Christ&#8217;s sake.<br \/>\nTake Away: Remember, Jesus told us to \u201cgo and make disciples\u201d \u2013 not \u201cgo and have meetings.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Checking the church calendar Isaiah 1: Meetings, meetings, meetings, I can&#8217;t stand one more! As a pastor I admit that this phrase resonates with me! In this case, though, it\u2019s God who\u2019s talking and he&#8217;s weary of his people going through the motions, filling their lives with meetings and other religious activity, but never simply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1502,7],"tags":[131,320,705,796,809],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196"}],"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=7196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14901,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196\/revisions\/14901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}