{"id":4295,"date":"2021-07-05T10:27:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T10:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=4295"},"modified":"2021-07-05T10:27:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T10:27:44","slug":"stop-pretending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/05\/stop-pretending\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop pretending"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:rgb(204,204,204);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none;text-align:left;\">And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him,<span> <\/span><\/span><span class=\"red\" style=\"color:rgb(153,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:left;\">Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house.<\/span> &#8211; Luke 19:5<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stop pretending.<\/p>\n<p>Come down out of the tree you&#8217;re hiding in.<\/p>\n<p>Come out from hiding amongst the stuff, Saul.<\/p>\n<p>Come down, and come quickly, right now&#8230;because I must spend time with the person you really are right now.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the great news of the Gospel.<\/p>\n<p>God wants to spend time with the real you.<\/p>\n<p>Not so He can change you (that is the byproduct)&#8230;but because He loves you.<\/p>\n<p>Stop pretending you&#8217;re taller than you are  and come down.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus wants to spend time with you today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house. &#8211; Luke 19:5 Stop pretending. Come down out of the tree you&#8217;re hiding in. Come out from hiding amongst the stuff, Saul. Come &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/05\/stop-pretending\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stop pretending&#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-4295","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\/4295","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=4295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}