{"id":9978,"date":"2021-11-25T06:37:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T12:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-luke-13\/"},"modified":"2021-10-26T15:28:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T20:28:49","slug":"devotional-on-luke-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-luke-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Luke"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15786\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15786\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/100_2887.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/100_2887-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"541\" class=\"size-large wp-image-15786\" srcset=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/100_2887-1024x577.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/100_2887-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/100_2887-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/100_2887-1536x865.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/100_2887.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2014 &#8211; Day trip to Vancouver, BC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Proximity religion<\/p>\n<p>Luke 13: That\u2019s when you\u2019ll find yourselves out in the cold, strangers to grace.<\/p>\n<p>I find this phrase, \u201cstrangers to grace\u201d a chilling one.  Jesus says that a lot of people think that because they hang out in the right places and associate themselves with the right people that they have it made.  When the curtain of history falls they think they\u2019ll be just fine and they\u2019ll have a place at the table.  The trouble is that their level of \u201cknowing\u201d falls far short of the requirement.  To know Jesus is vastly superior to knowing about Jesus.  His disciples live in a personal relationship with him.  They don\u2019t just hang out in the vicinity but, instead, enjoy a spiritual intimacy with our Lord.  I can\u2019t think of anything worse than depending on \u201cproximity religion\u201d when a personal, cherished, living relationship is available.  It\u2019s only at that level, as I live as a friend of the Lord, that I enjoy being a \u201cfriend of grace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Take Away: I want to be well acquainted with God\u2019s grace in my life.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proximity religion Luke 13: That\u2019s when you\u2019ll find yourselves out in the cold, strangers to grace. I find this phrase, \u201cstrangers to grace\u201d a chilling one. Jesus says that a lot of people think that because they hang out in the right places and associate themselves with the right people that they have it made. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1515,1428],"tags":[1229,518,900,905],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978"}],"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=9978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15788,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978\/revisions\/15788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}