{"id":1263,"date":"2009-01-12T12:28:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T12:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=154"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:29:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:29:46","slug":"a-circumspect-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1263","title":{"rendered":"A Circumspect Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>May we ponder today Ephesians 5: 15 which says, See then that ye <em>walk circumspectly<\/em>, not as fools, but wise, This is not <em>a careless walk<\/em>. A fool would pay no attention to each step, but a wise man sure would. A wise man would acknowledge God in everything from a \u00a0parking space at Wal-Mart to buying a home. I see from our text it is <em>a careful walk<\/em>. The word circumspect means to <em>walk <\/em>very carefully. This is \u00a0a picture word of one <em>walking <\/em>a picket fence and there is a Doberman on one side and a German Shepherd on the other. How should they <em>walk<\/em>? &#8220;Very carefully&#8221;,I would say. In\u00a0 verse 14 we find it is <em>a contrary walk<\/em>. It is contrary to the world, who are asleep and dead. Vance Havner the great preacher of yesterday said, &#8221; the devil has chloroformed the world. We that are God&#8217;s people let us \u00a0walk on.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May we ponder today Ephesians 5: 15 which says, See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but wise, This is not a careless walk. A fool would pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6513,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/6513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}