{"id":402,"date":"2023-05-19T15:19:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T15:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rap.us\/?p=402"},"modified":"2023-05-19T15:19:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T15:19:59","slug":"light-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rap.us\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"Light Shine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Bible, Jesus Christ encourages us as Christian&#8217;s to do good things so that others will see them and know that God is in us. Matthew 5:16 says, &#8220;Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.&#8221; It is great for us to let our good works shine, it&#8217;s not those works that save us but it is a good way to thank God by doing what He wants. We are saved by the grace of a sovereign\u00a0God who loves us and paid the price for our sins on the cross 2,000 years ago. I thank God for His great grace and mercy. Amen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Bible, Jesus Christ encourages us as Christian&#8217;s to do good things so that others will see them and know that God is in us. Matthew 5:16 says, &#8220;Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.&#8221; It is great for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}