{"id":8537,"date":"2019-04-01T09:08:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T13:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/2019\/04\/01\/enchanted-but-unchanged\/"},"modified":"2020-02-21T21:42:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T02:42:20","slug":"enchanted-but-unchanged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/2019\/04\/01\/enchanted-but-unchanged\/","title":{"rendered":"Enchanted But Unchanged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following devotional, from <strong><em>Daily Thoughts for Disciples <\/em><\/strong>by Oswald Chambers<strong><em>, <\/em><\/strong>burdened my heart this morning. Individuals who profess to be saved yet have never had a desire whatsoever to read the Bible, hear God&#8217;s Word preached, be among God&#8217;s people, etc. are greatly deceived. Just as a newborn baby hungers for milk, so a person who has been born again by repentance and faith in a Christ will hunger for the &#8220;milk of the Word&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>However, just because a person does attend church faithfully does not mean that individual is saved. Just because a person may even delight in hearing God&#8217;s Word preached does not guarantee salvation.<\/p>\n<p>I am struggling with knowing what else to say in this post. I pray that those who read this will do so with a receptive heart&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u202d\u202dEzekiel\u202c \u202d33:31\u202c \u202dKJV\u202c\u202c<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"827\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_7199.jpg?resize=960%2C827&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_7199.jpg?w=2790&amp;ssl=1 2790w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_7199.jpg?resize=300%2C258&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_7199.jpg?resize=768%2C662&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_7199.jpg?resize=1024%2C882&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_7199.jpg?resize=348%2C300&amp;ssl=1 348w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_7199.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following devotional, from Daily Thoughts for Disciples by Oswald Chambers, burdened my heart this morning. Individuals who profess to be saved yet have never had a desire whatsoever to read the Bible, hear God&#8217;s Word preached, be among God&#8217;s people, etc. are greatly deceived. Just as a newborn baby hungers for milk, so a person who has been born again by repentance and faith in a Christ will hunger for the &#8220;milk of the Word&#8221;. However, just because a person does attend church faithfully does not mean that individual is saved. Just because a person may even delight in hearing God&#8217;s Word preached does not guarantee salvation. I am struggling with knowing what else to say in this post. I pray that those who read this will do so with a receptive heart&#8230; \u201cAnd they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.\u201d \u202d\u202dEzekiel\u202c \u202d33:31\u202c \u202dKJV\u202c\u202c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[23,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grace","category-salvation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-2dH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537","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=8537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9309,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537\/revisions\/9309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}