{"id":2368,"date":"2014-04-04T08:42:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T13:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2014-04-07T10:27:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T15:27:48","slug":"we-cant-stop-we-can-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2368","title":{"rendered":"“WE CAN’T STOP” – – – “WE CAN STOP”"},"content":{"rendered":"

“We can’t stop the birds from flying over our head, but we can stop them from building nests in our hair.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 —–Martin Luther<\/p>\n

We can’t stop bad thoughts from flying across our mind, but we can stop them from building nests, especially in our mouth.<\/p>\n

“It’s not how much you eat that makes you strong; it’s how much you properly digest.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 —–Unknown, quoted often by my dad (application below)<\/p>\n

We can’t stop eating, but we can stop eating more than we need.<\/p>\n

Likewise, spiritually:<\/p>\n

It’s not how much Bible Study we consume, it’s how much we apply personally to our daily lives.<\/p>\n

It’s pointless to keep refilling the tank without burning the fuel constructively.<\/p>\n

Let us not allow building comfortable nests of complacency amidst our spiritual obesity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“We can’t stop the birds from flying over our head, but we can stop them from building nests in our hair.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 —–Martin Luther We can’t stop bad thoughts from flying across our mind, but we can stop them from building nests, especially in our mouth. “It’s not how much you eat that makes you strong; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2375,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}