{"id":7187,"date":"2016-11-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/?p=7187"},"modified":"2024-11-04T12:24:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T12:24:50","slug":"priority-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/2016\/11\/28\/priority-pursuit\/","title":{"rendered":"PRIORITY PURSUIT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Psalms 19:10 (NKJV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2018More to be desired are they than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The preceding verses enumerate all the positive virtues of the Word of God, calling it The Law, The Testimony, The Statutes, The Commandments, The Judgments of the Lord. These are different forms of the revelation of God given to Man for Man\u2019s good and moral sustenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the wise man, the Word of God should be His primary desire, for by it, he will know the mind of God and live in obedience to God. As precious as gold is and as sweet as pure honey is, the Word of God is of greater value and will give us greater satisfaction. So in all your pursuits in life, make the getting of God\u2019s Word, the primary pursuit and objective; and by this, you would have received more value than gold and a better taste than honey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God\u2019s Word, taken in slowly and gently, satisfies beyond human words and expression. O! the sweetness in drinking in God\u2019s Word slowly, in sipping it in gradually. The wonders and wisdom of God\u2019s Word are insatiable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2018Your first words to me as a new believer were, \u201cHave faith in the Book of Life for all shall be revealed to you therein\u201d. I cannot forget those words. Lord teach me to always remember these words and continue putting your Word as a priority consumption for my soul and spirit, over and above the love of every other pursuit. In Jesus name.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalms 19:10 (NKJV) \u2018More to be desired are they than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.\u2019 The preceding verses enumerate all the positive virtues of the Word of God, calling it The Law, The Testimony, The Statutes, The Commandments, The Judgments of the Lord. These are different forms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7378,"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":[17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-90-days-reflections-from-psalms","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/90-days-reflection-from-psalms.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187","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=7187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7189,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions\/7189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}