{"id":3408,"date":"2017-02-14T06:13:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T06:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=3408"},"modified":"2017-02-14T06:13:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T06:13:46","slug":"fighting-finishing-keeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/14\/fighting-finishing-keeping\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting, finishing, keeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u200b<span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:&quot;\">I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. &#8211; 2 Timothy 4:7<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Helvetica Neue, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">Fighting the good fight. Finishing the race. Keeping the faith.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Helvetica Neue, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">That&#8217;s all you&#8217;re called to do: fight, finish, and keep.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Helvetica Neue, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">And the reason there&#8217;s no mention of winning&#8230;is because you&#8217;re fighting a fight and running a race that you&#8217;ve already won.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Helvetica Neue, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">Jesus already won the victory at the Cross, and gave it to you when you became one with Him. (1 Corinthians 6:17)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Helvetica Neue, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">So given that you&#8217;ve already won, your part is just to keep fighting the good fight, running the race and keeping the faith until He calls you Home.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bI have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. &#8211; 2 Timothy 4:7 Fighting the good fight. Finishing the race. Keeping the faith. That&#8217;s all you&#8217;re called to do: fight, finish, and keep. And the reason there&#8217;s no mention of winning&#8230;is because you&#8217;re fighting a fight and running &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/14\/fighting-finishing-keeping\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fighting, finishing, keeping&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}