{"id":8859,"date":"2025-03-04T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=8859"},"modified":"2025-02-28T10:31:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T17:31:39","slug":"march-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=8859","title":{"rendered":"March 4th!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When May 4 rolls around, the Ewellogy has been known to pay tribute to Star Wars: May the 4th Be With You.<\/a> But not until my friend John Ed Mathison posted a blog last year<\/a>, had I ever thought about “the only calendar day that’s a command:”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

March 4th!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

March Forth! It’s not a bad word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

…but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3.13, 14, NKJV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sounds like March Forth to me! What’s the alternative?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense, and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man. Proverbs 24.30 – 34, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s not be like that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The righteous keep moving forward and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger. (Job 17:9, NLT)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When May 4 rolls around, the Ewellogy has been known to pay tribute to Star Wars: May the 4th Be With You. But not until my friend John Ed Mathison posted a blog last year, had I ever thought about “the only calendar day that’s a command:” March 4th! March Forth! It’s not a bad … Continue reading March 4th!<\/span> →<\/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-8859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-2iT","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8859","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=8859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8861,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8859\/revisions\/8861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}