{"id":839,"date":"2020-09-07T13:19:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T18:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottlownsdale.org\/?p=839"},"modified":"2020-09-09T11:11:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T16:11:21","slug":"why-i-never-read-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scottlownsdale.org\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":"WHY I NEVER \u201cREAD\u201d THE BIBLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And so it is impossible for me to open the Bible right now, first thing in the morning, and not be changed and nourished, provided that I HUNGER for the WORD of God and forsake the junk food this world offers me and that my flesh craves. Compared to the WORD of GOD, all else in this world is like a plate of ashes, even when offered on a silver plate. For if I HUNGER for the WORD, and EAT only the WORD, it will be impossible for the Word of God NOT to bear fruit in me now, and throughout this day, hour by hour, when I continue to be nourished by the greatest source of my soul\u2019s satisfaction that I have found in my 65 years on this planet: abiding in Jesus-the-Word, meditating upon the WORD of GOD day and night.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v8.0\" nonce=\"jbmHFk4o\"><\/script><div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scott.lownsdale\/posts\/10158746336876963\" data-width=\"750\"><blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scott.lownsdale\/posts\/10158746336876963\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><p>WHY I NEVER \u201cREAD\u201d THE BIBLEMy first rule of the day since February 2, 1981, after the night of my spiritual birth, is&#8230;<\/p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scott.lownsdale\">Scott Lownsdale<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scott.lownsdale\/posts\/10158746336876963\">Monday, 7 September 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And so it is impossible for me to open the Bible right now, first thing in the morning, and not be changed and nourished, provided that I HUNGER for the WORD of God and forsake the junk food this world offers me and that my flesh craves. Compared to the WORD of GOD, all else in this world is like<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottlownsdale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottlownsdale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottlownsdale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottlownsdale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottlownsdale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/scottlownsdale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottlownsdale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottlownsdale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottlownsdale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottlownsdale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}