{"id":1168,"date":"2012-05-30T09:27:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T13:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2012-05-30T09:27:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T13:27:49","slug":"may-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/?p=1168","title":{"rendered":"May 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Meditations <\/em><\/strong>on <strong>1 Thessalonians 5:21<\/strong>, \u201cTest all things; hold fast what is good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Testing means we need to make sure things are genuine. There is only one way to do that, hold it up to the Word of God. If it fails, get it out of your life!<\/p>\n<p>If it passes the test as genuine, hold fast and do not let go. We would have no problem understanding the strength of the phrase \u201chold fast\u201d if we were drowning and a rope were thrown to us. So hold on tight<\/p>\n<p>Do not take on any behavior or thought without testing it. Then, do what you\u2019ve got to do \u2013 let go or hold on! &#8211; Joe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meditations on 1 Thessalonians 5:21, \u201cTest all things; hold fast what is good.\u201d Testing means we need to make sure things are genuine. There is only one way to do that, hold it up to the Word of God. If it fails, get it out of your life! If it passes the test as genuine, hold fast and do not let go. We would have no problem understanding the strength&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/?p=1168\" class=\"read_link\"><span>Keep Reading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middleburg-meditations"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleburgchristians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}