{"id":17008,"date":"2021-11-12T20:14:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T20:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/?p=17008"},"modified":"2021-11-12T20:14:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T20:14:18","slug":"an-enlightened-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/blog\/pastors-word-for-the-week\/an-enlightened-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"AN ENLIGHTENED SOUL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[spb_text_block animation=”none” animation_delay=”0″ simplified_controls=”yes” custom_css_percentage=”no” padding_vertical=”0″ padding_horizontal=”0″ margin_vertical=”0″ custom_css=”margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px;” border_size=”0″ border_styling_global=”default” width=”1\/1″ el_position=”first last”]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There is a quality that every Christian should have. Robert Louis Stevenson described it when he was speaking of a friend. He said, “When he comes into a room it is as though someone had lighted another candle.”<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To me, a Christian is an enlightened soul that is like a lit candle. That one candle can light a thousand others without diminishing its light. It lives to add warmth and show the way, and selflessly gives itself away.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">“You, LORD, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light.” Psalm 18:28<\/p>\n<p>[\/spb_text_block]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[spb_text_block animation=”none” animation_delay=”0″ simplified_controls=”yes” custom_css_percentage=”no” padding_vertical=”0″ padding_horizontal=”0″ margin_vertical=”0″ custom_css=”margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px;” border_size=”0″ border_styling_global=”default” width=”1\/1″ el_position=”first last”] There is a quality that every Christian should have. Robert Louis Stevenson described it when he was speaking of a friend. He said, “When he comes into a room it is as though someone had lighted another candle.”\u00a0 To me, a Christian is an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pastors-word-for-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17010,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17008\/revisions\/17010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}