{"id":4367,"date":"2021-10-06T11:36:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T11:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/?p=4367"},"modified":"2021-10-06T11:36:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T11:36:57","slug":"a-part-or-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/?p=4367","title":{"rendered":"A Part or Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>38<\/strong>\u00a0Establish Your word to Your servant, As that which produces reverence for You. (Psalm 119:38)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To often we are focused on ourselves. We spend our waking hours considering how we are doing and maybe, just maybe, we spend a little time focused on what God is doing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And make no mistake, He is always doing something. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because we are so focused upon ourselves we can slip into this belief that there is us and there is everything else. We are apart, not a part. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God wants us to be set apart, while we are being a part. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s easy to get lost in the aparts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But when we are established in God\u2019s word, we have a reverence for God that allows us to be a part of His creation and still be separate. We are able to take His Word and rise above that which we may be mired in. Even in a dry land we can be living water to others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are meant to remain established in God\u2019s Word. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>38\u00a0Establish Your word to Your servant, As that which produces reverence for You. (Psalm 119:38) To often we are focused on ourselves. We spend our waking hours considering how we are doing and maybe, just maybe, we spend a little time focused on what God is doing. And make no mistake, He is always doing [&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-4367","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\/4367","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=4367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4368,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions\/4368"}],"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=4367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}