{"id":4037,"date":"2010-09-02T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=4037"},"modified":"2010-08-30T22:41:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T03:41:57","slug":"bible-in-90-days-day-60-soap-change-your-ways-and-be-forgiven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/bible-in-90-days-day-60-soap-change-your-ways-and-be-forgiven\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible in 90 Days Day 60 SOAP: Change your ways and be forgiven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Reading:\u00a0 Ezekiel 12:21- Ezekiel 23:39<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scripture: Ezekiel 18: 28<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Because he considers all the offenses he has committed and turns away from them, he will surely live; he will not die.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Observation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By realizing his mistakes and making the appropriate changes, his life will be spared.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Application:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even though mistakes (big and small) are made  which take us away from God, He wants us with Him. He will spare the  lives of those who turn away from their sin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reading through Ezekiel has been tough. And finding  one verse to focus on for today was a challenge. There is so much  devastation, frustration and evil.<\/p>\n<p>When I came upon this passage, though, I found it encouraging and a symbol of Your love and what is to come in my reading.<\/p>\n<p>You love each of us. And you want us to be with you and to respect  and love you. You want to accept us with our rights and wrongs.. but you  want us to acknowledge our wrongs and turn to you.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Lord, for second chances. Thank you for forgiveness. Thank  you for offering us love and eternal life with you&#8230; just for a change  of heart and an acceptance of a beautiful gift in your son.<\/p>\n<p>Please, Lord, help those who think they aren&#8217;t &#8216;good enough&#8217; for you  to realize that none of us really are. And then help them realize that  you accept and love us anyway, making up for all of our mistakes with  beautiful forgiveness and mercy. \u00a0And thank you, Lord, for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Reading:\u00a0 Ezekiel 12:21- Ezekiel 23:39 Scripture: Ezekiel 18: 28 Because he considers all the offenses he has committed and turns away from them, he will surely live; he will not die. Observation: By realizing his mistakes and making the appropriate changes, his life will be spared. Application: Even though mistakes (big and small) are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-in-90-days-summer-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4037"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4040,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions\/4040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}