{"id":199,"date":"2018-03-28T13:34:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T13:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/index.php\/2018\/03\/28\/2018-03-new-life\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T18:15:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T22:15:48","slug":"2018-03-new-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/blog\/2018-03-new-life\/","title":{"rendered":"New Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We carry around the chains of pride and self-centeredness that prevent us from asking God to unlock the manacles of hopelessness. <em>Some of us are afraid to trust<\/em> <em>Christ because we don\u2019t really believe He will get our lives right.<\/em> We fall into the trap of thinking that a life in Christ is all about rules and regulations. It isn\u2019t. Anything that stresses rules and regulations as a way to God may be a religion, but it\u2019s not a relationship. It is not true Christianity. When Jesus saves us, He saves us for a life of freedom\u2014not freedom to sin, but freedom to do the right things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Savior\u2019s keys unlock our chains. Our old lives\u2014with their bondage and negative patterns\u2014are gone. A process of change begins. Our old lives are like polluted fish tanks that smell up a room when the water filter is broken. When we accept Jesus as our Savior, He places a new water filter in the water tanks of our lives. He drops chlorine tablets into the reservoir of our hearts. The result is pure, sweet water that promotes life and health and hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We carry around the chains of pride and self-centeredness that prevent us from asking God to unlock the manacles of hopelessness. Some of us are afraid to trust Christ because we don\u2019t really believe He will get our lives right. We fall into the trap of thinking that a life in Christ is all about rules and regulations. It isn\u2019t. &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/blog\/2018-03-new-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12,27,48],"tags":[35,63,20,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}