{"id":1425,"date":"2011-04-01T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2011-03-13T14:31:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T13:31:24","slug":"lent-devotions-2011-friday-1-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/2011\/04\/01\/lent-devotions-2011-friday-1-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent devotions 2011: Friday 1 April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>For as by the one man&#8217;s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man&#8217;s obedience the many will be made righteous<\/strong><\/em>. &#8212;  Romans 5:19<\/p>\n<p>A choice Bible verse, perhaps?  It is after all, about our choices.  We have no choice with Adam and his Original Sin.  It is there when we are born.  It is mankind\u2019s burden.  We may have to live \u2013 and die &#8211; with it.  But do we?  There is another way.  As Adam condemned us, so Christ reprieves us.  Our Heavenly Father forgives us for our sins, He loves us all and the very heavens would ring out with joy if all came to Him.  But many \u2013 far too many &#8211; choose not to.  The way and life of a Christian is not always easy, but it is way we have been given.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heavenly Lord and Risen Saviour, may our steps towards Your open arms be swift and light, we pray to You to help us make the right choices in all that we do to bring glory to Your blessed name.  Amen.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For as by the one man&#8217;s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man&#8217;s obedience the many will be made righteous. &#8212; Romans 5:19 A choice Bible verse, perhaps? It is after all, about our choices. We have no choice with Adam and his Original Sin. It is there when we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lent-devotions-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}