{"id":4598,"date":"2026-05-19T07:47:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=4598"},"modified":"2026-05-19T07:47:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:47:28","slug":"not-waving-but-drowning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/not-waving-but-drowning\/","title":{"rendered":"Not waving but drowning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>John 3:15 KJV \u2014 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">None of us start from a place of waving and frolicking in the water, calmly considering what we&#8217;re going to do with the gospel, Jesus, issues of life and death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/46479\/not-waving-but-drowning\">We start off not waving, but drowning.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To believe in Jesus is to be rescued from perishing in the water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anything else, no matter how dressed up it is, is to stay in a state of perishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 3:15 KJV \u2014 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. None of us start from a place of waving and frolicking in the water, calmly considering what we&#8217;re going to do with the gospel, Jesus, issues of life and death. We start off not waving, but drowning. To believe &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/not-waving-but-drowning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not waving but drowning&#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-4598","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\/4598","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=4598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6538,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions\/6538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}