{"id":2397,"date":"2020-08-04T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2020-08-03T08:03:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T14:03:52","slug":"training-to-a-higher-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2397","title":{"rendered":"Training to a Higher Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2395\">yesterday<\/a> about our Bible study on Colossians 3.18 &#8211; 4.1: let our relationship with Jesus be the model and impetus for our relationships with others. My friend Joel pointed out that we are being called to a higher standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, I said it was important for subordinates to submit because, when I was a commander, I told the folks, &#8220;I really want to be nice, but I don&#8217;t have a range of skills between &#8216;please&#8217; and &#8216;the hammer.'&#8221; Joel&#8217;s response: &#8220;We&#8217;re called to a higher standard. If you didn&#8217;t have the skills you needed, you should have developed them!&#8221; A good word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I heard recently of a Christian (so I&#8217;m told) husband who admits to &#8220;anger issues.&#8221; Well, guess what? We don&#8217;t get to have anger issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. (Colossians 3.19, ESV)<\/em><\/li><li><em>Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. (Colossians 3.21, ESV)<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes we let ourselves off too easy. I&#8217;ve written before that the <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2352\">early church changed the world<\/a> by living out the gospel. The behavior the Apostle Paul was calling for was counter-cultural. The men and I discussed that if we can&#8217;t do what we&#8217;re called to do, then we not only &#8220;trust God&#8221; and &#8220;rely on the Holy Spirit,&#8221; we <strong><em>train<\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Train yourself for godliness. (1 Timothy 4.7, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak&#8221; <\/em>(Matthew 26.41) is a temporary condition. I&#8217;m weak post-surgery, but that&#8217;s temporary. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m training and going to physical therapy. I&#8217;m &#8220;rebuilding the house,&#8221; physically and spiritually. I hope you&#8217;ll join me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Now go up into the hills, bring down timber, and rebuild my house. Then I will take pleasure in it and be honored, says the LORD. (Haggai 1.8, NLT)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote yesterday about our Bible study on Colossians 3.18 &#8211; 4.1: let our relationship with Jesus be the model and impetus for our relationships with others. My friend Joel pointed out that we are being called to a higher standard. For example, I said it was important for subordinates to submit because, when I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2397\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Training to a Higher Standard<\/span> <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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-CF","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions\/2400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}