{"id":4819,"date":"2025-07-30T21:02:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=4819"},"modified":"2025-07-30T21:02:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:02:45","slug":"why-you-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/30\/why-you-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2 Timothy 2:15 KJV \u2014 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.<\/strong><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You study to show yourself approved of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You study to show <em>yourself, <\/em>not God, that you are approved unto God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You&#8217;re not trying to convince God, you&#8217;re trying to convince yourself of what God says you already have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Timothy 2:15 KJV \u2014 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. You study to show yourself approved of God. You study to show yourself, not God, that you are approved unto God. You&#8217;re not trying to convince God, you&#8217;re trying &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/30\/why-you-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why you study&#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-4819","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\/4819","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=4819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6073,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions\/6073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}