{"id":21433,"date":"2017-08-03T00:10:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T07:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lccredding.com\/lcc\/?p=11324"},"modified":"2017-08-03T00:10:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T07:10:47","slug":"august-3-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/2017\/08\/03\/august-3-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"August 3, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"backgrounder: transparent url('http:\/\/lccredding.com\/lcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/new-Aug-2017_edited-1.jpg'); backgrounder-size: 600px 300px; left top repeat 0 100% width: 600px; margin: 10px auto; padding: 10px 80px 10px 85px; width: 90%,;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>\u201cBut the path of the just is like the shining sun, that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day. The way of the wicked is like darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.\u201d<\/em> Proverbs 4:18-19<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A Well-Lit Path<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A Mini Devotional<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My husband and I were walking along a narrow path on an ocean cliff. The way was strewn with small sticks, pebbles, and shells, and we were barefoot, so we placed our feet carefully. I stayed close behind my husband in case I slipped or stumbled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When we rounded a bend, I realized I could no longer see well\u2014my husband cast a shadow on the path. I had to step back from following so closely so that the sun could shine on my path, too. I needed my own light source to walk safely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What a great spiritual application this has. When we follow people too closely, we may be walking in darkness at every bend in life\u2019s road. We could stumble, and never see it coming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We each need our own Light. We need the Son shining brightly on our own path to show us the way. We each need our own relationship with Him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cJesus, You are that shining Son. Light our way. Amen.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut the path of the just is like the shining sun, that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/2017\/08\/03\/august-3-2017\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p92wjD-5zH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}