{"id":3992,"date":"2009-02-16T11:28:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T16:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/os-chambers\/approved-unto-god-3"},"modified":"2009-02-16T11:28:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T16:28:20","slug":"approved-unto-god-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/02\/16\/approved-unto-god-3\/","title":{"rendered":"APPROVED UNTO GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; truth.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212; 2 Timothy 2:15<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you cannot express yourself on any subject, struggle until you<br \/>can. If you do not, someone will be the poorer all the, days of his<br \/>life. Struggle to re-express some truth of God to your self, and God<br \/>will use that expression to some one else. Go through the winepress<br \/>of God where the grapes are crushed. You must struggle to get<br \/>expression experimentally, then there will come a time when that<br \/>expression will become the very wine of strengthening to someone<br \/>else; but if you say lazily &#8211; &#8220;I am not going to struggle to express<br \/>this thing for myself, I will borrow what I say,&#8221; the expression will<br \/>not only be of no use to you, but of no use to anyone. Try to state<br \/>to yourself what you feel implicitly to be God&#8217;s truth, and you give<br \/>God a chance to pass it on to someone else through you. <\/p>\n<p>Always make a practice of provoking your own mind to think out what<br \/>it accepts easily. Our position is not ours until we make it ours by<br \/>suffering. <u>The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells<br \/>you something you did not know before, but the one who gives<br \/>expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for<br \/>utterance. <\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; truth. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212; 2 Timothy 2:15 If you cannot express yourself on any subject, struggle until youcan. If you do not, someone will be the poorer all the, days of hislife. Struggle to re-express&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}