{"id":2975,"date":"2005-07-05T15:26:48","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T20:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2005\/07\/05\/my-favorite-bible-verse\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T14:58:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T20:58:58","slug":"my-favorite-bible-verse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2005\/07\/05\/my-favorite-bible-verse\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Bible Verse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I can&#8217;t really select one verse out of the whole Bible, but there&#8217;s one I turn to a lot when things seem to be getting complicated and stressful. It&#8217;s a reminder that the really important things are more simple than we often try to make them out to be. I mean, if our dealings with the Creator of the Universe can be distilled into this, how hard should it be to handle the other things (and people) in our lives?<\/p>\n<p>The verse? Well, it comes from that oft-quoted Old Testament book of Micah (you <em>were<\/em> just reading Micah the other day, weren&#8217;t you?):<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\"><em>He has showed you, O man, what is good.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And what does the LORD require of you?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>To act justly and to love mercy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and to walk humbly with your God.<\/em> <span class=\"smaller\">[NIV]<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the paraphrased &#8220;The Message&#8221; puts that last part: <em>&#8220;Do what is fair and just to your neighbor, be compassionate and loyal in your love, And don&#8217;t take yourself too seriously &#8211; take God seriously.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How hard can that be?<\/p>\n<p>The verse is Micah 6:8; you can read it in context <a title=\"Biblegateway.com: Read the whole chapter (it's short)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?book_id=40&amp;chapter=6&amp;version=31\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my gifts seems to be the ability to complicate the simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5779,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions\/5779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}