{"id":2105,"date":"2015-05-18T09:30:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T17:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/nook\/?p=2105"},"modified":"2015-05-18T09:30:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T17:30:02","slug":"our-daily-bread-bible-verse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/05\/18\/our-daily-bread-bible-verse\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Daily Bread Bible Verse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000080;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/odb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Our Daily Bread<\/a> Bible verses have some particular relevance to my life and certainly relevant to all of ours.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"version-KJV result-text-style-normal text-html \">\n<h1 class=\"passage-display\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span class=\"passage-display-bcv\">Romans 13:10-14<\/span><span class=\"passage-display-version\">King James Version (KJV)<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span id=\"en-KJV-28277\" class=\"text Rom-13-10\" style=\"color: #800000;\"><sup class=\"versenum\">10\u00a0<\/sup>Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-KJV-28278\" class=\"text Rom-13-11\" style=\"color: #800000;\"><sup class=\"versenum\">11\u00a0<\/sup>And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-KJV-28279\" class=\"text Rom-13-12\" style=\"color: #800000;\"><sup class=\"versenum\">12\u00a0<\/sup>The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-KJV-28280\" class=\"text Rom-13-13\" style=\"color: #800000;\"><sup class=\"versenum\">13\u00a0<\/sup>Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-KJV-28281\" class=\"text Rom-13-14\" style=\"color: #800000;\"><sup class=\"versenum\">14\u00a0<\/sup>But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000080;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When I was sixteen, I survived a bit of teenage automotive foolishness, a desire to end my life which was aborted at the last second and I believe only with the help of divine intervention, that not only cemented a belief in God for me, but also the knowledge that God still acts and intervenes in the present day world.\u00a0 He didn&#8217;t just wind it up and let it go to it&#8217;s own undoing.\u00a0 But I had a hard time envisioning God as a loving God, else why would my life be so miserable?\u00a0 Rather, I had envisioned him more like the God in a video game that throws lightning bolts at running people, and indeed I got a lightning bolt of my own via a television antenna downlead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000080;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My experience in solitary confinement changed that view.\u00a0 God telling me I am responsible for the suffering I had caused.\u00a0 Then lifting the burden I had been carrying for so many years.\u00a0 Still, there are times I feel totally in the inadequate to the task of being his subject.\u00a0 There are moments of doubt and even though the flesh is marginally functional these days, there is still the desire to, as the King James English puts it, fulfil the lusts thereof.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000080;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;d like to belief that our salvation is in fact nearer than we believed, but this was written two millennia ago and we&#8217;re not there yet so clearly this may be a very long trudge through life. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Today&#8217;s Our Daily Bread Bible verses have some particular relevance to my life and certainly relevant to all of ours. Romans 13:10-14King James Version (KJV) 10\u00a0Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/05\/18\/our-daily-bread-bible-verse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}