{"id":1686,"date":"2011-11-30T11:24:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T15:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2011-11-30T11:24:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T15:24:37","slug":"if-it-is-the-lords-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1686","title":{"rendered":"If It Is the Lord&#8217;s Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cNow listen, you who say, &#8220;Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.&#8221;\u00a0Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.\u00a0Instead, you ought to say, &#8220;If it is the Lord&#8217;s will, we will live and do this or that.&#8221;\u00a0As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.\u00a0If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn&#8217;t do it, it is sin for them.\u201d \u2013 James 4:13-17 (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>As the economic upheaval over the last couple years has made it abundantly clear, we can\u2019t truly know or control life\u2019s circumstances on our own strength or volition.\u00a0 However, if we actively include the presence of God in making our decisions, setting our direction, and working along His path, then fulfilling His will becomes our goal and we will truly find success.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNow listen, you who say, &#8220;Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.&#8221;\u00a0Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.\u00a0Instead, you ought to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2088],"tags":[2228,1212,3194,2227,2232,1507,1213,2230,2229,2231,103],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-abundantly-clear","tag-book-of-james","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-economic-upheaval","tag-fulfilling-gods-will","tag-gods-presence","tag-james","tag-making-decisions","tag-presence-of-god","tag-setting-direction","tag-success"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-rc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1689,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions\/1689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}