{"id":1007,"date":"2022-07-17T02:19:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T02:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2022-07-17T02:19:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T02:19:36","slug":"our-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1007","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOur Choices\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWalk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.\u201d Proverbs 13:20<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you ever looked at your motivation for choosing certain friends? I have. It\u2019s not a pretty picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was somewhat of a loner in my early years and found myself smoking a pipe as a junior in high school. Most of the juniors and seniors at the Franciscan seminary in Santa Barbara were allowed to smoke. When I joined the Navy, I continued smoking and added drinking and partying to the list. My poor self-esteem and hunger for acceptance made me an easy target for Satan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God stepped in and introduced me to my late wife, Joanne, just in time. I had literally been selling my soul to gain the world and suffering much harm for being a fool. My marriage to Joanne opened my eyes to walking with the wise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I see so many young folks making the same mistakes I made. The way of the world is even more enticing today, but the harm suffered by living that lie is immeasurable. Walking with the wise is even less popular these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Am I ignoring God\u2019s invitation to walk with the wise or have I become a companion of fools?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cWalk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.\u201d Proverbs 13:20 Applying God\u2019s Word Have you ever looked at your motivation for choosing certain friends? I have. It\u2019s not a pretty picture. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1007\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}