Matthew 22:21<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd He said to them, \u2018Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar\u2019s, and to God the things that are God\u2019s.\u2019 \u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I will not keep sin and evil in my bosom. I will not embrace worldliness and political correctness. I will not dance to the songs played by the world system. I will not keep what belongs to Caesar. All the dirty, evil and compromising ways of this world will never be my delight. I am not of Caesar, and therefore, anything that is of Caesar should go to Caesar. I will only use the goods of this world if they do not war against my passion to give to God what belongs to God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My body, my spirit, my soul, my entire being, belongs to God, and I must wholly give to God all that is called mine. They are not really mine. Even my very thoughts belong to Him, and I must live in the constant consciousness that everything I think is mine is really from God and must be released back to Him in voluntary submission. I am not Caesar\u2019s. I am God\u2019s. And to God, I joyfully flee and rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI am Yours, O God and in happy surrender, I release all of me to You. I am not of this world and although I am in this world, may Your Holy Spirit constantly remind me that I don\u2019t belong to Caesar. This I ask in Jesus name. Amen\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Matthew 22:21 \u201cAnd He said to them, \u2018Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar\u2019s, and to God the things that are God\u2019s.\u2019 \u201d I will not keep sin and evil in my bosom. I will not embrace worldliness and political correctness. I will not dance to the songs played by the world system. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-reflections-from-matthew"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Reflections-from-Matthew.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4312,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions\/4312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}