{"id":17,"date":"2011-06-03T11:04:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T15:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/?p=17"},"modified":"2011-06-03T11:04:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T15:34:49","slug":"time-to-go-on-a-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/06-03-2011\/time-to-go-on-a-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to go on a diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many diet plans and programs out there (some truly are out there) today. A quick search comes back with &#8220;About 56,300,000 results.&#8221; I&#8217;m sure that number will increase as time goes on.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m all for being healthy, despite the fact that I am not good at it. I agree that for God to use us, we need to be usable, and that means we should try to take care of ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>In keeping with that, I want to mention a diet plan that was first written about well over 1,900 years ago. This plan is slightly different than all the others, but I believe it is more helpful, and much healthier. If you want to read the whole thing, you can find it in John 3:22-30, but it can be summarized by the last verse, &#8220;He must increase, but I must decrease.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There you have it, one of the most awesome diet plans I know of. Will it make you drop inches? It can, if food is getting in your way, but it was written to make you drop a different type of weight; the weight that worldly desires put on your shoulders. If you put Christ before yourself, you will find that you won&#8217;t be carrying such a heavy load.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many diet plans and programs out there (some truly are out there) today. A quick search comes back with &#8220;About 56,300,000 results.&#8221; I&#8217;m sure that number will increase as time goes on. I&#8217;m all for being healthy, despite the fact that I am not good at it. I agree that for God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}