{"id":694,"date":"2016-04-13T10:24:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T10:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=694"},"modified":"2016-04-13T10:24:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T10:24:08","slug":"strange-customs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/13\/strange-customs\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange customs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span id=\"en-MSG-12087\" class=\"text Rom-12-17-Rom-12-19\">Don\u2019t hit back; discover beauty in everyone. If you\u2019ve got it in you, get along with everybody. Don\u2019t insist on getting even; that\u2019s not for you to do. \u201cI\u2019ll do the judging,\u201d says God. \u201cI\u2019ll take care of it.&#8221; &#8211; Romans 12:19<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know it feels weird, but you need to take it seriously that you&#8217;re not from around here.<\/p>\n<p>Where you come from, we\u00a0have strange customs like turning the other cheek, going the extra mile, forgiveness, talking to mountains\/fig trees\/oceans\/stuff&#8230; and\u00a0allowing God to avenge\u00a0us and fight our battles for us.<\/p>\n<p>And even though these seem like weak and foolish things to the locals, they forget that we also have strange customs like raising the dead, healing the sick, feeding a football stadium with a 12-year old&#8217;s packed lunch, prophesying\u00a0future events with pinpoint accuracy, walking through walls and many other &#8220;signs, wonders and various miracles&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re all part of the Life we carry.<\/p>\n<p>So as weird as it feels, stay in your lane of\u00a0love&#8230;and let God &#8220;take care of it&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t hit back; discover beauty in everyone. If you\u2019ve got it in you, get along with everybody. Don\u2019t insist on getting even; that\u2019s not for you to do. \u201cI\u2019ll do the judging,\u201d says God. \u201cI\u2019ll take care of it.&#8221; &#8211; Romans 12:19 I know it feels weird, but you need to take it seriously that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/13\/strange-customs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strange customs&#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-694","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\/694","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=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}