{"id":3927,"date":"2011-08-08T05:39:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T10:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=3927"},"modified":"2011-08-08T05:39:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T10:39:01","slug":"giving-your-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=3927","title":{"rendered":"Giving Your Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You must not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or sheep with a defect or any serious flaw, for that is detestable to the Lord your God.&#8221; Deuteronomy 17:1<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>God&#8217;s love moved Him to sacrifice that which meant the most to Him&#8211;His only Son.\u00a0 Our response, if we truly understand His love for us, is the desire to give back to God that which means the most to us.<\/li>\n<li>The offerings we give back to God reveal our hearts&#8217; condition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I love that this is the devotion for August 8 in Henry Blackaby&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Experiencing-God-Day---Day-Devotional\/dp\/0805444785\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1312799834&amp;sr=1-2\" target=\"_blank\">Experiencing God Day by Day<\/a> book.\u00a0 What a great challenge as we rush headlong into another school year dedicated to the glory of God and the good of others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You must not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or sheep with a defect or any serious flaw, for that is detestable to the Lord your God.&#8221; Deuteronomy 17:1 God&#8217;s love moved Him to sacrifice that which meant the most to Him&#8211;His only Son.\u00a0 Our response, if we truly understand His love for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study","category-book-review","category-generosity","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927","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=3927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}