{"id":477,"date":"2017-03-08T09:16:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T14:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=477"},"modified":"2017-03-08T09:18:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T14:18:42","slug":"it-rains-on-the-just-and-the-unjust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/08\/it-rains-on-the-just-and-the-unjust\/","title":{"rendered":"It Rains on the Just and the Unjust…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two men sitting in the rain one is a sinner and one is a saint…<\/span><\/h6>\n
Two women working side by side, one lives for Jesus while\u00a0the other wants to hide…<\/h6>\n
Two stubborn mules, they won’t move nor budge, the farmer is the owner, but God is the judge.<\/h6>\n

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We all fall down sometimes…we all make mistakes…the thing is, we need to give each other a humble-break…<\/h6>\n
You never know,\u00a0when the table turns,\u00a0and you’ll be on the other side and have<\/h6>\n
To make…<\/h6>\n
Decisions hard and difficult, choose love, not hate…<\/h6>\n
Choose forgiveness not revenge…<\/h6>\n
Choose life not death…<\/h6>\n
Choose peace not war…<\/h6>\n
So, when you’re standing in the rain, whether sinner or saint, you both get wet,\u00a0so bring an\u00a0umbrella and share it together.<\/h6>\n

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–Marla Shaw O’Neill March 8, 2017<\/h6>\n
The Message Bible says…<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re familiar with the old written law, \u2018Love your friend,\u2019 and its unwritten companion, \u2018Hate your enemy.\u2019 I\u2019m challenging that. I\u2019m telling you to love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. When someone gives you a hard time, respond with the energies of prayer, for then you are working out of your true selves, your God-created selves. This is what God does. He gives his best\u2014the sun to warm and the rain to nourish\u2014to everyone, regardless: the good and bad, the nice and nasty. If all you do is love the lovable, do you expect a bonus? Anybody can do that. If you simply say hello to those who greet you, do you expect a medal? Any run-of-the-mill sinner does that.<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n
\u201cIn a word, what I\u2019m saying is, Grow up. You\u2019re kingdom subjects. Now live like it. Live out your God-created identity. Live generously and graciously toward others, the way God lives toward you.\u201d Matthew 5:44-48 The Message (MSG)<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two men sitting in the rain one is a sinner and one is a saint… Two women working side by side, one lives for Jesus while\u00a0the other wants to hide… Two stubborn mules, they won’t move nor budge, the farmer is the owner, but God is the judge. We all fall down sometimes…we all make…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aPxH-7H","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}