{"id":158,"date":"2012-07-11T04:25:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T04:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=158"},"modified":"2012-11-07T21:05:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T03:05:11","slug":"the-only-thing-good-in-me-is-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"The only thing good in me is Jesus!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard the song, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-DZ7YWJvRLw\">The Only Thing<\/a>, by Ronnie Freeman for the first time tonight while listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandora.com\/\">Pandora<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I loved hearing this song, and it was yet another reminder for the importance of humility. I know my heart and I know that I have proudly accepted many undeserved compliments (from others and from myself) throughout my life. \u00a0No matter what my life looks like to myself or others, I have to remember that I am still the least of thieves and yet Jesus still loves me and is in me. The more I superficially build myself up from these good deeds and compliments, the further I push Jesus away, but once I remember or realize that everything thing good in me is because of Jesus I pull closer to Him.<\/p>\n<p>Ephesians (2:8-9) &#8220;For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jesus please keep reminding me to be humble so that I can pass Your glory on to You!<\/p>\n<p>It is Our Best Life&#8230; let&#8217;s pass it on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard the song, The Only Thing, by Ronnie Freeman for the first time tonight while listening to Pandora. I loved hearing this song, and it was yet another reminder for the importance of humility. I know my heart and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=158\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,131,130],"tags":[54,27,1466,98,1465,134,133,15,55,53,12,51,10,132,136,137,135,52,16],"ppma_author":[2854],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-grace","category-humility","tag-best","tag-faith-2","tag-grace","tag-humble","tag-humility","tag-is","tag-it","tag-jesus","tag-life","tag-my","tag-my-best-life","tag-our","tag-our-best-life","tag-pass-it-on","tag-ronnie-freeman","tag-the-least-of-thieves","tag-the-only-thing","tag-your","tag-your-best-life"],"authors":[{"term_id":2854,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sbernadac","display_name":"Sarah Bernadac","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d6f6fd27725929c335efc2f3f617d947991447401cb02a573de4c068d7361377?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Bernadac","first_name":"Sarah","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}