{"id":3856,"date":"2022-07-21T03:03:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T03:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2022-07-21T03:03:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T03:03:27","slug":"not-as-unwise-but-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2022\/07\/21\/not-as-unwise-but-wise\/","title":{"rendered":"NOT AS UNWISE ,BUT WISE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eph 5:15,16  Be very careful then how you live &#8211; not as unwise  but wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.<\/p>\n<p>Wisdom in the Bible is more than just intellectual knowledge; it is the application of knowledge in our day to day living. It  involves understanding the shape of God&#8217;s created order, and living appropriately. A wise person understands who rules the world, what the world is really like, where the world is heading &#8211; and lives appropriately.<\/p>\n<p>How we live is of course, the most important practical issue in our lives. We must be careful &#8211; diligent. Paul says we need to watch carefully how we do it. To be careful is to be accurate, exact and meticulous.<\/p>\n<p>Living a Christian life is not only about having big dreams and plans. It&#8217;s also about it&#8217;s details . It&#8217;s ensuring that we are extremely careful as we take one step after another on a daily basis. It&#8217;s about making use of every opportunity that comes to us. An opportunity lost will never return ( Another opportunity may come again but not the one that was lost).<\/p>\n<p>Further readings:<br \/>\nJoh 9:4<br \/>\nEph 5:2<br \/>\nCol 4:5<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4f Blessed Day \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eph 5:15,16 Be very careful then how you live &#8211; not as unwise but wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Wisdom in the Bible is more than just intellectual knowledge; it is the application of knowledge in our day to day living. It involves understanding the shape of God&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3858,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions\/3858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}