{"id":433,"date":"2015-07-15T20:22:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T20:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eatingforrealblog.wordpress.com\/?p=433"},"modified":"2015-07-15T20:22:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T20:22:43","slug":"numbers-dont-define-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopeinthemess.com\/?p=433","title":{"rendered":"Numbers don&#8217;t define us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin:0;font-family:'Open Sans';\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The very first thing the nurse wants to know when you go for a check-up is a &#8220;number&#8221;.\u00a0 This is even true from the moment a baby comes into this world.\u00a0 I know the numbers for my children &#8211; 6&#8217;2&#8242; and 6&#8217;1&#8242;.\u00a0 Are numbers important? Will God ask me these numbers as I walk through the Golden Gates?\u00a0 Will I even remember them?\u00a0 I placed so much emphasis on numbers during my eating disorder- weight, inches, calories, grams, time, and others.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin:0;font-family:'Open Sans';\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Everyone places value on numbers.\u00a0 Think about it. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Age, height, weigh, clothing size, money, grades, test scores, colleagues, friends, Facebook likes, social accounts, twitter feeds, snap chats, followers, scores&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jesus says that<\/p>\n<p>I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. (John 15:11)<\/p>\n<p>He says absolutely NOTHING about numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, a number may FEEL like it can bring us Joy&#8211; but trust me, that is not the JOY or PEACE that comes from what Jesus is talking about.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin:0;font-family:'Open Sans';\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The very first thing the nurse wants to know when you go for a check-up is a &#8220;number&#8221;.\u00a0 This is even true from the moment a baby comes into this world.\u00a0 I know the numbers for my children &#8211; 6&#8217;2&#8242; and 6&#8217;1&#8242;.\u00a0 Are numbers important? Will God ask me these numbers as I walk through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeinthemess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeinthemess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeinthemess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeinthemess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeinthemess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hopeinthemess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeinthemess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeinthemess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeinthemess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}