{"id":5250,"date":"2015-12-28T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/?p=5250"},"modified":"2015-12-27T18:35:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T23:35:54","slug":"bible-verse-of-the-day-12-28-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/bible-verse-of-the-day-12-28-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Verse of The Day &#8211; 12-28-15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Luke 12:13-14 (NKJV) 13 Then one from the crowd said to Him, \u201cTeacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.\u201d 14 But He said to him, \u201c<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Man, who made Me a judge or an arbitrator over you<\/span>?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\">How many times a day do we get dragged into people&#8217;s quarrels,\u00a0arguments, or discussions, that have nothing to do with us?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Jesus tells this man right out, &#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">who made Me a judge or an arbitrator over you<\/span>?&#8221; In other words, He&#8217;s not getting in the middle of this because it doesn&#8217;t concern Him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Just as Jesus didn&#8217;t let this man drag Him in,\u00a0we should not let people\u00a0drag us into conversations or situations we don&#8217;t\u00a0need to be involved in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\">We need to keep moving forward in the things we need to be focused on.\u00a0Things like this can bring distraction and a lot of emotional\u00a0involvement\u00a0that is unnecessary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Just because we are Christians\u00a0doesn&#8217;t mean we are\u00a0judges\u00a0or\u00a0arbitrators\u00a0over anyone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Keep moving on, pass by those things that are a distraction and\u00a0focus on\u00a0those things that God wants us to be\u00a0doing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Pastor Curt &amp; Pastor Ellie<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Seven Seas Ministries<br \/>\nP.O. Box 272<br \/>\nBradford, RI 02808<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\">401-315-0902<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you know someone who will enjoy this or be encouraged by it, please feel free to share it with them!<\/p>\n<p>To have the Bible Verse of The Day delivered to your inbox each day, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a> and then enter your email address in the box near the upper left corner of the\u00a0page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 12:13-14 (NKJV) 13 Then one from the crowd said to Him, \u201cTeacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.\u201d 14 But He said to him, \u201cMan, who made Me a judge or an arbitrator over you?\u201d How many times a day do we get dragged into people&#8217;s quarrels,\u00a0arguments, or discussions, that have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2948],"tags":[2952,2949,2951,2950],"class_list":["post-5250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tending-to-gods-work","tag-bible-verses-about-not-getting-involved-in-others-arguments","tag-bible-verses-about-staying-focused-on-what-god-has-for-us-to-do","tag-bible-verses-about-staying-out-of-the-business-of-others","tag-what-the-bible-says-about-staying-focused"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5252,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions\/5252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}