{"id":850,"date":"2019-10-18T00:05:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T05:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glorycbcdevotion.home.blog\/?p=850"},"modified":"2024-10-14T22:06:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T22:06:35","slug":"2019-10-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/devotion-2019_2021\/2019-10-18\/","title":{"rendered":"2019-10-18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deuteronomy 11:1-32<\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s laws set boundaries in our lives so that we can freely enjoy His blessings.<\/p>\n<p>In this chapter, we learn that love and obedience go hand in hand.<br \/>\nLove is our prime motivation to obey God\u2019s laws. We obey God\u2019s laws because He loves us. God promises to bring blessings to us if we obey Him.<\/p>\n<p>How can we say that God shows His love to us when we obey His laws\/ words? \u00a0Do all these laws actually restrict us from enjoying God\u2019s blessings?<br \/>\nGod\u2019s laws are like boundaries to protect us. \u00a0For instance, do not touch the hot stove.<br \/>\nThe Bible says \u2018Then we shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.\u2019 John 8:32 We experience true freedom by obeying His words.<br \/>\nDr. Robert Augustus Masters, a relationship expert in an article entitled \u201cBoundaries Make Freedom Possible\u201d made the following statement:<br \/>\n\u201cReal freedom, however, is not about having no limitations;<br \/>\nrather it is about finding liberation within- and also through- limitation (as when the apparent constraints of committed monogamous relationship actually enrich and deepen the relationship).<br \/>\nReal freedom does not mind limitations and in fact is not limited by them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We are free to enjoy God\u2019s blessings if we carefully obey His words.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8212;- Alan Yam<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deuteronomy 11:1-32 God\u2019s laws set boundaries in our li [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion-2019_2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4582,"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/4582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}