{"id":1179,"date":"2024-07-20T15:25:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T15:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2024-07-20T15:25:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T15:25:20","slug":"something-borrowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1179","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSomething Borrowed\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\">\u201cIf anyone borrows an animal from their neighbor and it is injured or dies while the owner is not present, they must make restitution.\u201d Exodus 22:14<\/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\"><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Segoe UI&quot;;color:black;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ligatures:\nnone\">I\u2019ve never borrowed an animal from a neighbor, but I\u2019ve borrowed plenty<br>of other things. <\/span><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Segoe UI&quot;;color:black;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ligatures:\nnone\">Our family lived in a neighborhood where borrowing was pretty much<br>expected and accepted. We didn\u2019t lock the doors to our house. Neighbors would<br>come in, take a cup of sugar or some eggs and leave a note. We had access to<br>their homes as well. My dad used to say, \u201cIf you borrow a tool or anything else<br>make sure you return it in better condition than when you borrowed it.\u201d I\u2019ve<br>made that a practice all of my life. <\/span><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Segoe UI&quot;;color:black;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ligatures:\nnone\">How about the things on loan to me from the Lord? I\u2019m talking about my<br>time, money, talents and possessions. At some point He expects me to return<br>them in better condition than when He loaned them to me. It\u2019s been the most<br>challenging part of my life.<\/span><\/p><\/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\">Is my life my own or is it on loan from God?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cIf anyone borrows an animal from their neighbor and it is injured or dies while the owner is not present, they must make restitution.\u201d Exodus 22:14 Applying God\u2019s Word I\u2019ve never borrowed an animal from a neighbor, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1179\">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-1179","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\/1179","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=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}