{"id":1253,"date":"2024-11-17T15:02:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T23:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2024-11-19T15:10:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T23:10:10","slug":"creeping-light-romans-612-13a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=1253","title":{"rendered":"Creeping Light\u00a9 \u2013 Romans 6:12-13a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024-Blog-November-Week-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1254\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024-Blog-November-Week-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024-Blog-November-Week-3.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024-Blog-November-Week-3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><em>I can\u2019t explain it exactly, but somehow the way the light was trying to \u201cescape\u201d from the clouds here &#8212; twisting and squirming its way into sight \u2013 reminded me of the devil and how hard he works at trying to convince us to stray from our Lord.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This picture reminds me that sin is everywhere and that I must always stay close to the Lord and be watchful. Sin can creep up on you from what seems like nowhere and at any time in your life \u2013 even when you are confident in your relationship with Christ. Our sin nature is always waiting to rear its ugly head, though \u2013 vigilance is the key to staying right with God. Plug all the gaps and do not let sin creep through your \u201carmor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Light up ev\u2019ry dark recess of our heart\u2019s ungodliness &#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> W. H. Bathurst<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9Selkirk Mountain Inspiration 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t explain it exactly, but somehow the way the light was trying to \u201cescape\u201d from the clouds here &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=1253\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading &gt;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Creeping Light\u00a9 \u2013 Romans 6:12-13a<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[2],"tags":[14,11,15,17,20],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotionals","tag-christian-devotional","tag-christian-lifestyle","tag-devotional-thought","tag-mountain-living","tag-selkirk-mountain-inspiration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}