{"id":5392,"date":"2023-03-12T11:02:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T16:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5392"},"modified":"2023-03-12T11:02:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T16:02:10","slug":"bartering-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5392","title":{"rendered":"BARTERING &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; ! or ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the old days, bartering was part of everyday life, for survival.<br>Today, bartering still has its benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what about the following list for bartering?<br>Bartering for blessings ?<br>Bartering for blame ?<br>Bartering for confession ?<br>Bartering for absolution ?<br>Bartering for forgiveness ?<br>Bartering for mercy ?<br>Bartering for salvation ?<br>Bartering for my soul ?<br>Bartering for baffling questions ?<br>Bartering for answers ?<br>Bartering for points ?<br>Bartering before the judge ?<br>Bartering before the devil ?<br>Bartering with God ?<br>Bartering for life ?<br>Bartering for eternal life ?<br>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br>No bartering&#8212;for &#8220;parts that are for keeps&#8221; !<br>Yes bowing&#8212;before my Maker, the Master !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Nothing in my hand I bring,<br>Simply to Thy cross I cling;<br>Naked, come to Thee for dress;<br>Helpless, look to Thee for grace;<br>Foul, I to the fountain fly;<br>Wash me, Savior, or I die.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the old days, bartering was part of everyday life, for survival.Today, bartering still has its benefits. But what about the following list for bartering?Bartering for blessings ?Bartering for blame ?Bartering for confession ?Bartering for absolution ?Bartering for forgiveness ?Bartering for mercy ?Bartering for salvation ?Bartering for my soul ?Bartering for baffling questions ?Bartering for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-financial","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392"}],"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=5392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5393,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392\/revisions\/5393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}