{"id":4357,"date":"2021-10-01T12:51:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T12:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/?p=4357"},"modified":"2021-10-01T12:51:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T12:51:51","slug":"rise-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/?p=4357","title":{"rendered":"Rise &#038; Shine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>14&nbsp;<\/sup>for what makes everything visible is light. Therefore it is said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Get up, sleeper,\u00a0and rise up from the dead,<br>and Christ will shine on you. (Ephesians 5:14 CSB)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our responsibility in Christ is to rise and shine upon others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now I believe that this begins with rising early so that I might get infused with God\u2019s word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I need it every morning. I need to reflect on the previous day and test the things I did against scripture. God is faithful to point out where I have failed and writing these provides me the ability to assess myself and adjust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Life in Christ is not something that is set. It is something that we rise to daily and open ourselves to divine appointments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We must also rise with Christ firmly placed before us so that we have a good start to our day and begin with the right mindset. In this way we can gauge our every word and act against the right standard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this way Christ shins upon us and we have the ability and opportunity to shine upon others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who might you shine upon today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14&nbsp;for what makes everything visible is light. Therefore it is said: Get up, sleeper,\u00a0and rise up from the dead,and Christ will shine on you. (Ephesians 5:14 CSB) Our responsibility in Christ is to rise and shine upon others. Now I believe that this begins with rising early so that I might get infused with God\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4358,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions\/4358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}