{"id":1947,"date":"2012-01-26T09:28:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T13:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2012-01-26T09:28:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T13:28:29","slug":"our-past-does-not-define-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1947","title":{"rendered":"Our Past Does Not Define Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThough I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet if he trusts in his righteousness and does injustice, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his injustice that he has done he shall die.\u00a0Again, though I say to the wicked, &#8216;You shall surely die,&#8217; yet if he turns from his sin and does what is just and right,\u00a0if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has taken by robbery, and walks in the statutes of life, not doing injustice, he shall surely live; he shall not die.\u00a0None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he shall surely live.\u201d \u2013 Ezekiel 33:13-16 (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>Life is a journey.\u00a0 Our Heavenly Father knows that we\u2019ll make incorrect choices, and stray from His path from time to time.\u00a0 And yet, while we need to remain diligent in our pursuit of righteousness and fulfilling God\u2019s desires for our lives, when we do err it\u2019s important to remember that those moments don\u2019t have to define us; when in humility and repentance we ask for forgiveness and learn from those mistakes that we\u2019ve made, God joyfully refreshes our spirits and draws us to Him.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThough I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet if he trusts in his righteousness and does injustice, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his injustice that he has done he shall die.\u00a0Again, though I say to the wicked, &#8216;You shall surely die,&#8217; yet if he turns from [&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":[2635,3194,2638,2634,35,2640,2232,966,2132,2636,109,2642,2244,2639,2643,2641,2637],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-book-of-ezekiel","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-diligent","tag-ezekiel","tag-forgiveness","tag-fulfilling-gods-desires","tag-fulfilling-gods-will","tag-god","tag-humility","tag-incorrect-choices","tag-journey","tag-learn-from-our-mistakes","tag-our-heavenly-father","tag-pursuit-of-righteousness","tag-refreshes-our-spirits","tag-repentance","tag-stray-from-gods-path"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-vp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","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=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1949,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions\/1949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}