{"id":1143,"date":"2024-02-15T18:06:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T18:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2024-02-15T18:06:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T18:06:56","slug":"my-teddy-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1143","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy Teddy Bear\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI will give you a new heart\u00a0and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone\u00a0and give you a heart of flesh.\u201d Ezekiel 36:26<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently, Louise and I were reminiscing about our childhoods and I shared about how attached I was to my \u201cTeddy Bear\u201d. I took it everywhere with me. At some point, my parents started eliminating body parts from my raggedy old friend until all I had left was an ear. In time, even that disappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God does the similar thing with me. He lovingly eliminates the things of this world that I shouldn\u2019t still be clinging to. He really has given me a new heart and put a new spirit in me. He\u2019s removed my heart of stone and replaced it with one filled with more compassion and love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I didn\u2019t like the way my \u201cTeddy Bear\u201d was eliminated, but I really appreciate the process God uses to eliminate those things in my life that separate me from Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Am I allowing God to mold me and to eliminate the things that separate me from Him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cI will give you a new heart\u00a0and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone\u00a0and give you a heart of flesh.\u201d Ezekiel 36:26 Applying God\u2019s Word Recently, Louise and I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1143\">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-1143","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\/1143","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=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}