{"id":7870,"date":"2024-08-04T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=7870"},"modified":"2024-07-31T15:42:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T21:42:58","slug":"intention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=7870","title":{"rendered":"Intention!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we get into Hebrews, one theme is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=7867\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">avoid Jesus and&#8230;<\/a>&#8221; But I&#8217;m seeing another in these first few chapters. What do you think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. (2.1)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Now, if we can only keep a firm grip on this bold confidence, we&#8217;re the house! (3.6)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>So watch your step, friends. Make sure there&#8217;s no evil unbelief lying around that will trip you up and throw you off course, diverting you from the living God. (3.12)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>For as long, then, as that promise of resting in him pulls us on to God&#8217;s goal for us, we need to be careful that we&#8217;re not disqualified. (4.1)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pay attention, lest we drift&#8230;keep a firm grip&#8230;watch your step&#8230;be careful. The Jews now in captivity in Babylon, that we&#8217;ve been reading about, didn&#8217;t set out to be idolatrous&#8230;but<a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=7847\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> that&#8217;s what they became<\/a>. How could France, a Christian country for centuries, builder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=7766\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Notre Dame Cathedral<\/a>, be proud to produce an <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=7864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Olympics Opening Ceremony<\/a> that mocked Christianity? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My son the <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5666\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stair racer<\/a> won another race, Saturday, July 27. It was the Coors Field climb, 3,600 steps around the lower stands. I watched him do it. The runners run individually, a staggered start. His friend Christopher Baker shown with Mark after the race finished a minute slower than Mark. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-11.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"547\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-11.png?resize=474%2C547&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-11.png?w=583&amp;ssl=1 583w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-11.png?resize=260%2C300&amp;ssl=1 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why am I highlighting Mark again? Because he doesn&#8217;t win these races by accident. He trains. And to get worse, to go from winning to being an also-ran, he wouldn&#8217;t have to do anything. Literally. Just stop training. The application is clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Stay alert; be in prayer so you don&#8217;t wander into temptation without even knowing you&#8217;re in danger. There is a part of you that is eager, ready for anything in God. But there&#8217;s another part that&#8217;s as lazy as an old dog sleeping by the fire. (Matthew 26.41, MSG)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. (1 Corinthians 9.24, 25, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we get into Hebrews, one theme is &#8220;avoid Jesus and&#8230;&#8221; But I&#8217;m seeing another in these first few chapters. What do you think? Pay attention, lest we drift&#8230;keep a firm grip&#8230;watch your step&#8230;be careful. The Jews now in captivity in Babylon, that we&#8217;ve been reading about, didn&#8217;t set out to be idolatrous&#8230;but that&#8217;s what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=7870\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Intention!<\/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-7870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-22W","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7870","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=7870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7873,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7870\/revisions\/7873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}