“The fear of man brings a snare . . .”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The fear of man brings a snare.
–What could ‘they’, or ‘someone’, or ‘so-and-so’ do to hurt me ?
–Real or imagined ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The praise of man brings a snare.
–I need approval to feel good.
–Everybody does—really ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The love of man brings a snare.
–Makes life complete ?
–Except when it’s a trap, to sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The talk of man brings a snare.
–What are people going to say ?
–What might this person think ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The respect of man brings a snare.
–Is there a positive fear of man ?
–Sincerely want to please—who?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The thought of man brings a snare.
–Who am I thinking about ?
–Who am I working for, living for ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The fear of man brings a snare;
Whoever trusts in the Lord will be safe.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Do your work—live your life—heartily as unto the Lord, and not unto man; that’s where you’re going to receive your heavely reward.
It is the Lord Christ you serve.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“The fear of man brings a snare . . .” The fear of man brings a snare.–What could ‘they’, or ‘someone’, or ‘so-and-so’ do to hurt me ?–Real or imagined ? The praise of man brings a snare.–I need approval to feel good.–Everybody does—really ? The love of man brings a snare.–Makes life complete ?–Except […]<\/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-7673","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\/7673"}],"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=7673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7674,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7673\/revisions\/7674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}