{"id":1414,"date":"2020-02-24T10:55:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T10:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2020-02-25T10:27:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T10:27:57","slug":"more-turning-aside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=1414","title":{"rendered":"More &#8220;Turning Aside&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">When God called Moses from the bush, Moses stopped what he was doing, and paid attention to where God was calling him. He &#8220;turned aside&#8221; from one thing in order to be present at a better thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, I was talking with a new believing Christian friend. She admitted she was having a dry spell in her Bible reading, and that she didn&#8217;t feel as connected to God as she once did. I asked her where she was reading, and she admitted she was just poking around in the Bible, not really reading anything in particular. I told her maybe she should consider reading John&#8217;s gospel, and just meditating on that for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This morning, I had an idea. How about I &#8220;turn aside&#8221; from my normal Bible reading (which right now is 1st Chronicles), and I read John along with her. I&#8217;ve pitched her this idea: I&#8217;ll read John, a chapter a day, Monday through Friday. That will get us through John in a little over a month. Each morning, after I&#8217;m done reading, I&#8217;ll send her an email with some basic thoughts and comments, and she can email me if she has any bigger questions. Let&#8217;s see how this goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, thinking about this, the time I&#8217;ll be using to write this email will be time I normally use to study for my Doctrine class. How am I going to make this all fit? Let&#8217;s see how God works through this, in her and in me. I&#8217;ll report back later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When God called Moses from the bush, Moses stopped what he was doing, and paid attention to where God was calling him. He &#8220;turned aside&#8221; from one thing in order to be present at a better thing. Yesterday, I was talking with a new believing Christian friend. She admitted she was having a dry spell &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=1414\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,43],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-brhythm","4":"post-1414","6":"format-standard","7":"category-christianity","8":"category-sf100"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}