{"id":762,"date":"2019-11-02T21:31:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T21:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=762"},"modified":"2019-11-02T21:31:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T21:31:58","slug":"sooner-or-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=762","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSooner or Later\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\">\u201cWhoever\nhas ears, let them hear.\u201d Matthew 13:9-16<\/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\">Over the last few years, I\u2019ve\nnoticed that my ability to hear has diminished. I catch myself saying \u201cWhat\u201d a\nlot. I\u2019m also turning the radio and television up more often. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Presently, I\u2019m in the market\nfor hearing aids. What an eye-opener that\u2019s been. The prices range from $1,000\nto $13,000. You can buy the basic ones or the ones that do everything. Doing a\ncomparison study of the different products and options is exhausting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was amazed to find out that\nhearing and our memory of sounds are tied together. The longer we wait to\npurchase hearing aids the less likely we are to recall certain sounds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s true of our ability to\nhear God, also. The longer we avoid hearing the voice of God the less likely we\nare to know what God\u2019s purpose is for us while we are here. <\/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\">\u201cHow\u2019s my ability to hear? Am\nI making an effort to hear God?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cWhoever has ears, let them hear.\u201d Matthew 13:9-16 Applying God\u2019s Word Over the last few years, I\u2019ve noticed that my ability to hear has diminished. I catch myself saying \u201cWhat\u201d a lot. I\u2019m also turning the radio &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=762\">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-762","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\/762","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=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}