{"id":820,"date":"2017-04-04T23:15:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T05:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/?p=820"},"modified":"2017-04-04T23:15:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T05:15:54","slug":"light-and-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/2017\/04\/04\/light-and-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Light and Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was doing my devotions this evening, and I ran across these verses: \u00a0<em>This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. \u00a0Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. \u00a0But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.<\/em> That is John 3:19-21. \u00a0It is just a reminder of the gulf that separates believers from non-believers. \u00a0There is no middle ground. \u00a0The light exposes us for what we are. \u00a0The darkness hides us and lets us pretend to be what we are not.<\/p>\n<p>I have a lot of thoughts, but it is late and I do not feel I&#8217;m being coherent. \u00a0Just in case you were wondering our trip to Bozeman was a blast. \u00a0Ashley and I had a very good time together. \u00a0It was restful, refreshing, and fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was doing my devotions this evening, and I ran across these verses: \u00a0This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. \u00a0Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/2017\/04\/04\/light-and-dark\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Light and Dark&#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-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","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=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}