{"id":2698,"date":"2010-12-17T08:13:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T12:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2010-12-17T08:13:47","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T12:13:47","slug":"christmas-reading-day-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=2698","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Reading: Day 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/47.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2623\" title=\"47\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/47.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Reading: Galatians 4:1-7 (English Standard Version)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything,<strong>2<\/strong> but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.<strong>3<\/strong> In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.<strong>4<\/strong> But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,<strong>5<\/strong> to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.<strong>6<\/strong> And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba! Father!<strong>7<\/strong> So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Authority can be a huge blessing&#8230;both the opportunity to be in authority as well as under authority.<\/li>\n<li>I love the phrase &#8220;fullness of time&#8221;&#8230;that is further proof that God does things in His perfect time on purpose.<\/li>\n<li>We are adopted as children of God and therefore are full heirs of His redemption.<\/li>\n<li>Why do I still act like a slave when I have been redeemed as a child of God?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Reading: Galatians 4:1-7 (English Standard Version) 1 I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything,2 but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.3 In the same way we also, when we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}