{"id":490,"date":"2015-01-25T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T05:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/?p=490"},"modified":"2015-01-27T22:53:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T03:53:31","slug":"do-you-like-a-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"Do you like a challenge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes things get overly complicated.\u00a0 We take in so much information in a given day, it&#8217;s difficult to digest it all, much less put something into practice.\u00a0 Yesterday, I read an article that acknowledged this.\u00a0 It listed a number of things right up front that would lead to a particular outcome.\u00a0 Then, it said, &#8220;Reading the list is easy. Putting it into practice can be hard.&#8221;\u00a0 So, let&#8217;s make this simple.\u00a0 Think of something, one thing, whether it is easy or difficult, that you acknowledge is a flaw in your character.\u00a0 It can be lying, cheating, gossiping, profanity, slothfulness, gluttony, materialism, anger, jealousy, pride, lust (porn), substance abuse &#8211; the list goes on.\u00a0 You figure it out.\u00a0 Pick one thing.\u00a0 Now, stop doing it.\u00a0 You may have to come up with a plan.\u00a0 You may need take some affirmative action &#8211;\u00a0confess, find some accountability, unsubscribe to a service, subscribe to a service (filter), whatever it takes.\u00a0 And, don&#8217;t go back to it.\u00a0 That&#8217;s my challenge to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes things get overly complicated.\u00a0 We take in so much information in a given day, it&#8217;s difficult to digest it all, much less put something into practice.\u00a0 Yesterday, I read an article that acknowledged this.\u00a0 It listed a number of things right up front that would lead to a particular outcome.\u00a0 Then, it said, &#8220;Reading&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/?p=490\">Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-repentance","tag-repent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}