{"id":149,"date":"2008-01-06T09:20:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T14:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.livingbythewordsofgod.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2008-01-06T09:20:41","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T14:20:41","slug":"the-good-work-isnt-completed-until-the-day-of-jesus-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;good work&#8221; isn&#8217;t completed until the day of Jesus Christ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am in process; the theological term is sanctification; lots of cleaning up and learning still needed.\u00a0 Bunches actually.<\/p>\n<p>I need to remember that because sometimes what I believe is not what &#8220;comes out&#8221; in my life.<\/p>\n<p>News flash!\u00a0 I don&#8217;t always act according to my beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I lack the faith and courage to do the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I allow the cares of this world to squeeze God&#8217;s truth from my consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I have wrong desires.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I rebel.<\/p>\n<p>But always God is bringing me toward a distant point where one day I will perfectly reflect the image of his Son, Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(Philippians 1:6 MSG)\u00a0 There has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day Christ Jesus appears.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, God!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in process; the theological term is sanctification; lots of cleaning up and learning still needed.\u00a0 Bunches actually. I need to remember that because sometimes what I believe is not what &#8220;comes out&#8221; in my life. News flash!\u00a0 I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=149\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-spirituality-religion-truth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dxA8-2p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}