{"id":4336,"date":"2022-12-21T12:52:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T12:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=4336"},"modified":"2022-12-21T12:52:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T12:52:19","slug":"stop-trying-to-be-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/21\/stop-trying-to-be-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop trying to be free"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.<\/p><cite>Galatians 5:1<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, realise that you are already free, and that your job is to reject everything that would bring you into bondage again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You&#8217;re not trying to break out of prison. Your work is to stand in your freedom and to reject anything that would ensnare you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This subtle distinction is more important than it seems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Selah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Galatians 5:1 Instead, realise that you are already free, and that your job is to reject everything that would bring you into bondage again. You&#8217;re not trying to break out of prison. Your &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/21\/stop-trying-to-be-free\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stop trying to be free&#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-4336","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\/4336","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=4336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}