{"id":932,"date":"2021-09-10T19:39:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T19:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=932"},"modified":"2021-09-10T19:39:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T19:39:35","slug":"the-plank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=932","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Plank\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother\u2019s eye.\u201d Luke 6:42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This scripture speaks to me about the importance of having a close intimate relationship with Jesus. If I don\u2019t have a relationship with Jesus, I am spiritually blind. It\u2019s hard to lead others spiritually, if I have a plank in my eye and can\u2019t see clearly. It also warns me not to follow others who are spiritually blind or don\u2019t have a relationship with Jesus. Remember the story about the two blind men?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A blind man grabs another blind man\u2019s arm and says, \u201cNeed help crossing the street!\u201d Thinking it was an offer to help him cross the street, the other blind man says, \u201cSure.\u201d Together, arm in arm, they stepped off the curb into traffic and both blind men almost get run over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, our world is filled with the blind leading the blind. To know who is or isn\u2019t blind these days, we ourselves must be able to see clearly.<\/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 spiritually blind? Am I following others who are spiritually blind?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God Word \u201cYou hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother\u2019s eye.\u201d Luke 6:42 Applying God\u2019s Word This scripture speaks to me about the importance &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=932\">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-932","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\/932","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=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}