{"id":37,"date":"2010-03-22T22:26:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T04:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michel2010.name\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2010-03-22T22:26:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T04:26:37","slug":"slacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/2010\/03\/22\/slacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Slacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I realize now that it has been a while since I&#8217;ve posted. \u00a0Sorry about that. \u00a0Quick update. \u00a0Things have been going well. \u00a0I spent this Saturday with the guys from my Bible study working on Tiffany&#8217;s (she is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmcrministries.org\/internship.html\">interning here at BMCR<\/a>) house. \u00a0That was actually fun, the weather was beautiful. \u00a0I was amazed how tired I was at the end of the day (I&#8217;ve been sitting in an office to long). \u00a0However we finished a wall, got the second story floor up, and put the roof on so all in all I think it was a productive day. \u00a0 Today I spent working on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmcrministries.org\/staff.html#salava\">Andy&#8217;s<\/a> computer and more work in the Trading Post. \u00a0I had a meeting with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmcrministries.org\/staff.html#barnard\">Donna<\/a>, and she gave me a whole list of things I need to figure out how to do with our new <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.prodigy.net\/daleharris\/pos.htm\">POS program<\/a>, so I&#8217;m looking forward to that. \u00a0Other than that nothing is new. \u00a0I&#8217;m tired as usual but I&#8217;m not sure why.<\/p>\n<p>Psalm 67:1 <em>God be merciful to us, and bless us, and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Amen.<\/p>\n<p>Proverbs 30:5 <em>Every word of God is pure: he is a shield to them that put their trust in him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><\/em><br \/>\nIn whom do I trust?  If it is myself or others I am lost.  There is no protection there.  If my trust is in Christ I have a shield that none can over come.  How foolish I am when I trust in things other than my savior.<\/p>\n<p>30:8-9 <em>Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD?  Or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">All things in moderation.  How quickly I can take the blessings God has given me and some how think I have brought them about.  He is the giver of all good things, and when I forget that I start putting my trust in other things, which ties right back into verse 5.<\/p>\n<p>30:12  <em>There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The sad part is I read this and immediately start thinking of people I know that this applies to.  How easy it is for me to point out every one else&#8217;s sin, and in the busyness of doing that ignore my own.  If I had half the concern for my sin that I&#8217;ve got for others sin I would be a very different person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I realize now that it has been a while since I&#8217;ve posted. \u00a0Sorry about that. \u00a0Quick update. \u00a0Things have been going well. \u00a0I spent this Saturday with the guys from my Bible study working on Tiffany&#8217;s (she is interning here at BMCR) house. \u00a0That was actually fun, the weather was beautiful. \u00a0I was amazed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/2010\/03\/22\/slacking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Slacking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}