{"id":27892,"date":"2020-03-24T03:30:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T10:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/?p=27892"},"modified":"2020-03-19T15:57:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T22:57:05","slug":"march-24-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/2020\/03\/24\/march-24-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"March 24, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-parallax-none nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-background-position:center top;--awb-background-repeat:repeat-y;--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-background-image:url(&quot;http:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/March-2020-Devo-Template.jpg&quot;);--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_6 1_6 fusion-one-sixth fusion-column-first\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;width:16.666666666667%;width:calc(16.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.16666666666667 ) );margin-right: 4%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_3_4 3_4 fusion-three-fourth fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:40px;--awb-padding-right:10px;--awb-padding-bottom:40px;--awb-padding-left:10px;--awb-bg-size:cover;width:75%;width:calc(75% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.75 ) );\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p class=\"Body\" align=\"center\"><i>&#8220;Praise the Lord! I will praise the Lord with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright and in the congregation.&#8221;\u00a0<\/i>Psalm 111:1<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"Body\"><b>Two Hands, Please!<\/b><\/h2>\n<p class=\"Body\">My little, old kitty is becoming pretty high-maintenance the older she gets. She wants to be brushed, fed often (and heartily), and given a lot of affection, which I\u2019m happy to give. But she never fails to remind me of my own sometimes &#8220;half-hearted&#8221; attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">I\u2019ll bend down to give her a little pat with one hand, and it never fails. She looks up toward my other hand that I\u2019m holding back, as if to say, &#8220;Hey buddy, that hand\u2019s not busy; get it in on the action, too!&#8221; Only when I put <i>both\u00a0<\/i>hands into the rubdown does she look content. Hmm\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">I got to thinking of my own sometimes &#8220;half-hearted&#8221; attention and devotion to Jesus. I can praise Him in the &#8220;assembly of the upright&#8221;, even raising both hands, but is my <i>&#8220;heart far from Him&#8221;\u00a0<\/i>(Matthew 15:8)? This happens more times than I care to admit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">I have to stop and say to God, &#8220;I\u2019m sorry, Lord. My mind is all over the map! Please help me focus on You!&#8221; And in His mercy, He does!<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">The beauty of walking with Jesus is that He never <i>demands\u00a0<\/i>our worship. And He most certainly doesn\u2019t put us on a guilt trip when our feeble brains drift off. But He does absolutely keep His eye on the &#8220;idols&#8221; of our hearts. And so should we. Far too often, something as mundane as picking out new carpet colors can sideline me for a week. It can be a necessary task, but it can also be a trap if I\u2019m not careful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" align=\"center\"><i>Lord Jesus, please help us worship You with &#8220;two hands&#8221; and whole hearts. You deserve all the glory! Amen and amen!<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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-27892","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-7fS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27892","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=27892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27894,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27892\/revisions\/27894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}