{"id":969,"date":"2011-09-08T09:12:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T07:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/?p=969"},"modified":"2011-09-08T09:12:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T07:12:17","slug":"we-are-not-our-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/we-are-not-our-own\/","title":{"rendered":"We are not our own"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are not our own: let not our reason nor our will, therefore, sway our plans and deeds. We are not our own: let us therefore not set it as our goal to seek what is expedient for us according to the flesh. We are not our own: in so far as we can, let us therefore forget ourselves and all that is ours.. Conversely, we are God&#8217;s: let us therefore live for him and die for him. We are God&#8217;s: let this wisdom and will therefore rule all our actions. We are God&#8217;s: let all the parts of our life accordingly strive toward him as our only lawful goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">John Calvin\u00c2\u00a0in &#8220;The Good News we almost Forgot&#8221; by Kevin DeYoung<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We are not our own: let not our reason nor our will, therefore, sway our plans and deeds. We are not our own: let us therefore not set it as our goal to seek what is expedient for us according to the flesh. We are not our own: in so far as we can, let &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/we-are-not-our-own\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We are not our own&#8221;<\/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":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}