{"id":881,"date":"2024-04-23T07:33:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T11:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devos.mbros.info\/?p=881"},"modified":"2025-07-07T10:39:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:39:39","slug":"ephesians-517","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devos.mbros.info\/?p=881","title":{"rendered":"Ephesians 5:17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good Morning!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Therefore do not be foolish and thoughtless, but understand and firmly grasp what the will of the Lord is. &nbsp;-Ephesians 5:17<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ephesians chapter 5 is subtitled in some Bibles as \u201cBe Imitators of Christ\u201d and I would encourage you to read the whole chapter. It covers a lot of how we should be imitators of Christ. Part of that is the above verse where it tells us to not be foolish but understand what the will of God is. There are a lot of things that pop up in today\u2019s world, as I am sure it has throughout history, where there isn\u2019t a specific answer in the Bible if it is considered something that we should or shouldn\u2019t do as followers of Christ. The Bible is not a buffet where you can just go through and pick and choose what you want to apply and what you want to ignore. It is also not the best idea to pick one verse in the Bible and hang your whole doctrine on it. When the Bible is taken as a whole and we take the whole picture into account we can often discern if something aligns with God or not. In order to know the Bible we have to spent time in it, I encourage you to pick some time every day to read and study the Bible. It might not be a lot of time at first but consistency is key and through consistency is where we change our world. Let\u2019s be the change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBe not troubled about those who are with your or against you, but take care that God be with you in everything you do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe world never gives to you, but always puts you in debt. God alone gives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dad Joke of the Day:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CEO of IKEA was elected president of Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hear he\u2019s still assembling his cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have a great Tuesday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning! 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