{"id":2617,"date":"2014-12-31T10:33:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T16:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2617"},"modified":"2014-12-31T10:35:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T16:35:58","slug":"decide-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2617","title":{"rendered":"DECIDE NOW . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three things to consider today, before a new year, and DECIDE NOW what we will do then, when . . .<\/p>\n<p>When we are faced with a new day in the new year, none of us is strong enough to withstand the myriad of attractions and distractions coming into our mind from our gadgets and our goals the moment we awaken. DECIDE NOW to give the very beginning of every day to Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>When we are faced with any kind of sexual temptation, none of us is strong enough to decide then, to say &#8220;no,&#8221; if we do not DECIDE NOW.<\/p>\n<p>When we are faced with a gun to our head or a knife to our neck to deny Jesus, we may not pass the test then, if we do not DECIDE NOW.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;REMEMBER NOW your Creator in the days of your youth [and we are all younger than we will ever be], before the evil days come, or the years draw near, when you will say, &#8216;I have no pleasure in them.'&#8221;\u00a0 &#8212;&#8211;His Book<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three things to consider today, before a new year, and DECIDE NOW what we will do then, when . . . When we are faced with a new day in the new year, none of us is strong enough to withstand the myriad of attractions and distractions coming into our mind from our gadgets and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617"}],"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=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2620,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions\/2620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}