{"id":7556,"date":"2016-06-18T00:33:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T00:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=7556"},"modified":"2016-06-18T00:33:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T00:33:56","slug":"the-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/7556\/the-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Hi Pastor John!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">I felt like Jesus let me know that there are places in this walk with him that are closer than others and that we have the choice to stay mediocre (best word I can think of) or reach for a higher place with him.\u00a0\u00a0I felt like Jesus was asking me how far I wanted to go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Does that sound right? Do we have a choice like that with Jesus?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">If that&#8217;s true, I don\u2019t want to get hung up on some human thing that keeps me from a closer relationship with Jesus. I want to get as close as I can get.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Beth<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Hi Beth.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Yes, that is true.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Every one of God&#8217;s children chooses, at some point, whether or not to pay the price to continue to grow in the knowledge of God.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Let&#8217;s be wise, and choose to grow!<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Pastor John<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"opacity:.3;background-image:url('https:\/\/ssl.gstatic.com\/ui\/v1\/icons\/mail\/ellipsis.png');background-repeat:no-repeat;height:8px;width:20px;\" src=\"\/Users\/Tom\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image001.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Pastor John! I felt like Jesus let me know that there are places in this walk with him that are closer than others and that we have the choice to stay mediocre (best word I can think of) or reach for a higher place with him.\u00a0\u00a0I felt like Jesus was asking me how far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}