{"id":470996,"date":"2025-02-15T02:04:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T20:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=470996"},"modified":"2025-02-15T02:04:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T20:34:29","slug":"am-i-my-brothers-keeper-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/am-i-my-brothers-keeper-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I My Brother\u2019s Keeper?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bba1b50751f40cc7df1057b6d2727177 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>For none of us lives for ourselves alone. \u2014 Romans 14:7<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Has it ever dawned on you that you are spiritually responsible for other souls? If you ever find yourself turning away from God, even in private, watch out: you will cause harm to everyone around you. \u201cThere are many parts, but one body,\u201d Paul wrote. \u201cIf one part suffers, every part suffers with it\u201d (1 Corinthians 12:20, 26).<br>If we care about our friends, families, and communities, we must set a close guard on our hearts and minds. To give in to physical selfishness, intellectual laziness, or spiritual stubbornness is to put everyone around us at risk. \u201cBut who is strong enough to meet a standard like that?\u201d you say. Our strength comes from God, and God alone.<br>When Jesus called us to be his witnesses, he meant that we should spend every bit of our mental, moral, and spiritual energy for him (Acts 1:8). When we embrace this calling, we will find that we\u2019ve been made entirely useless from every viewpoint but his. It takes time; we must be patient with ourselves. But we must also remember why we are here: not to be saved and sanctified but to give our all for his sake. This is how we say thank you to God for the unspeakable gift of our salvation.<br>By Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For none of us lives for ourselves alone. \u2014 Romans 14:7 Has it ever dawned on you that you are spiritually responsible for other souls? If you ever find yourself turning away from God, even in private, watch out: you will cause harm to everyone around you. \u201cThere are many parts, but one body,\u201d Paul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}