{"id":7325,"date":"2017-10-14T08:03:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T12:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/2017\/10\/14\/we-are-as-close-to-god-as-we-want-to-be\/"},"modified":"2020-04-28T19:56:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T23:56:45","slug":"we-are-as-close-to-god-as-we-want-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/2017\/10\/14\/we-are-as-close-to-god-as-we-want-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are As Close To God As We Want To Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.&#8221; II Timothy 2:19<\/p>\n<p>The devotional below, from Spurgeon&#8217;s Morning &amp; Evening, reminded me of the above verse I read this morning. As Christian&#8217;s, it&#8217;s our decision whether or not we will depart from iniquity and thus live a victorious Christian life. Truly, we are as close to God as we want to be.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0896.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7324\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0896.jpg?resize=960%2C1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0896.jpg?w=3024&amp;ssl=1 3024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0896.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0896.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0896.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0896.jpg?w=2880 2880w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. 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Truly, we are as close to God as we want to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,36,7,33,56,58,25,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backsliding","category-faithfulness","category-growing","category-guarding-from-sin","category-holiness","category-protection","category-surrender","category-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-1U9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9558,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325\/revisions\/9558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}