{"id":3992,"date":"2011-08-26T05:58:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T10:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=3992"},"modified":"2011-08-26T05:58:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T10:58:56","slug":"redeeming-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=3992","title":{"rendered":"Redeeming the Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk&#8211;not as unwise people but as wise&#8211;making the most of the time, because the days are evil.&#8221; Ephesians 5:15-16<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>So many causes promise that time spent on them will reap great rewards; how can we recognize God&#8217;s voice among so many competing voices?<\/li>\n<li>The temptation is to sacrifice what is best for what is good.<\/li>\n<li>He will tempt you to so fill your schedule with good things that you have no time for God&#8217;s best.<\/li>\n<li>Time is a precious commodity.\u00a0 Be sure to invest it wisely.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Thoughts from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Experiencing-God-Day---Day-Devotional\/dp\/0805462988\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1313492047&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Experiencing God Day by Day Devotional<\/a> by Henry Blackaby and Richard Blackaby<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk&#8211;not as unwise people but as wise&#8211;making the most of the time, because the days are evil.&#8221; Ephesians 5:15-16 So many causes promise that time spent on them will reap great rewards; how can we recognize God&#8217;s voice among so many competing voices? The temptation is to sacrifice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14,23,28,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study","category-book-review","category-generosity","category-integrity","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992","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=3992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}