{"id":9216,"date":"2019-02-11T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/love-is-action-word\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T15:38:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T21:38:17","slug":"love-is-action-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=9216","title":{"rendered":"Love is an Action Word"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My son is a speed reader. He has to be \u2013 as the CEO of a large technology company, he has to read and review tons of documents and correspondence on a daily basis and if he wasn\u2019t a speed reader, he\u2019d be bogged down with more paperwork than he could handle. I\u2019ve become a speed reader, too! And there lies the reason why I have to scold myself. I see how easily I can turn my goal of reading my Bible through in one year into cold repetition and an act of regimen instead of reading it like a love letter and intentionally looking for the meaning of God\u2019s love words to me. My Bible is my \u201cgo to\u201d place for finding direction on which way to go or what to do. I have so many \u201cgo-to\u201d passages and I know so many stories I will often read them and gloss over the words or think there\u2019s nothing new to learn or that I already know it all as it relates to that verse or this chapter.<\/p>\n

And it may be the same for you. Yes, we hear God\u2019s words spoken to us when we attend church or a Bible Study, but even those times we may find ourselves speed-reading through familiar words or skipping a section altogether because we \u201cknow\u201d it so well. Oh, our enemy is a sly fox and he loves it when we \u201cspeed-read\u201d through God\u2019s love messages to us.<\/p>\n

I am stirred up about how important it is for NOT speed-reading through the greatest love explanation that was ever penned. That is 1 Corinthians 13. If you\u2019ve ever attended a wedding, I\u2019m sure you heard somewhere in the ceremony those words spoken. If only we practiced what we heard and learned. Would you join me in reading these words as if you\u2019re seeing them for the very first time? Please try!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My son is a speed reader. He has to be \u2013 as the CEO of a large technology company, he has to read and review tons of documents and correspondence on a daily basis and if he wasn\u2019t a speed reader, he\u2019d be bogged down with more paperwork than he could handle. I\u2019ve become a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1018,12340,12341,12342,12343,3598,12344,12345,12346,12347,12348],"class_list":["post-9216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1-corinthians-13","tag-bible-app","tag-love-is-a-verb","tag-love-is-an-action-word","tag-love-is-patient-and-kind","tag-love-month","tag-love-sweet-love","tag-matthew-543-48","tag-speed-read","tag-speed-reader","tag-what-the-world-needs-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9347,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9216\/revisions\/9347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}