{"id":1292,"date":"2025-09-27T18:48:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2025-09-27T18:48:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:48:30","slug":"i-get-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Get To\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\">\u201cMy sheep listen to my voice; I know them,\u00a0and they follow me.\u201d John 10:27<\/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\">Do I have to be one of God\u2019s sheep? No, but I get to. Do I have to know God? No, but I get to. Do I have to follow God? No, but I get to. Do I have to listen to God\u2019s voice? No, but I get to. All I really have to do is tell God, \u201cI want to follow You.\u201d At that point all of the many times I said, \u201cI don\u2019t want to\u201d become a lifetime of \u201cI Get To\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve done some pretty remarkable things in the last 79 years, but nothing more remarkable than following Jesus. No day with Him is the same. I never know what He has planned for me, who He\u2019s going to introduce me to or how my day with Him will play out. We go everywhere and do everything together. Scary? It can be a little unnerving at times, but then life is like that anyway.<\/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\">Do I have to follow God? Do I get to follow God?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cMy sheep listen to my voice; I know them,\u00a0and they follow me.\u201d John 10:27 Applying God\u2019s Word Do I have to be one of God\u2019s sheep? No, but I get to. Do I have to know God? &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1292\">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-1292","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\/1292","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=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}