{"id":920,"date":"2021-07-24T21:12:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T21:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=920"},"modified":"2021-07-24T21:12:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T21:12:46","slug":"running-aimlessly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Running Aimlessly&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTherefore, I do not run like someone running aimlessly;\u00a0I do not fight like a boxer beating the air.No, I strike a blow to my body\u00a0and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.\u201d 1 Corinthians 9:26-27<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We watched the opening ceremony of the Olympics. It puzzles me to think that so many countries can be united with one another every four years, but so divided the rest of the time. Maybe it\u2019s because the rest of the world doesn\u2019t train as hard as these athletes do,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These incredible men and women may not take home a medal, but they will know that their tireless training won them an opportunity to unite the world, even if only for a short time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My spiritual life requires a commitment to training, also. I can\u2019t show up once a week to build spiritual strength. I have to make my body my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize. Our spiritual muscles need continuous exercise in order to finish strong.<\/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 running aimlessly? Do I fight like a boxer beating the air?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God Word \u201cTherefore, I do not run like someone running aimlessly;\u00a0I do not fight like a boxer beating the air.No, I strike a blow to my body\u00a0and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=920\">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-920","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\/920","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=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}