{"id":593,"date":"2017-10-22T10:02:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T10:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/wordpress\/?p=593"},"modified":"2017-10-07T21:05:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T21:05:28","slug":"the-character-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/the-character-test\/","title":{"rendered":"The Character Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been thinking a lot about doing what I do for the glory of God, and I have been trying<br \/>\nto encourage my children to think about this as well. I think the true test of character is to continue<br \/>\ndoing good with the gifts you possess when others don&#8217;t even realize what you are doing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes that is hard to do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many times that is difficult to do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is a little video for you to ponder this idea in a new way. Granted, this man is now known, but<br \/>\nthink about all the time he spent doing this when he wasn&#8217;t &#8220;known.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think our culture is becoming obsessed with trying to become &#8220;known&#8221; to the world. There are<br \/>\nbenefits to working in the shadows!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-allowfullscreen=\"true\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4\/videos\/10154654782217330\/\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I encourage you to do all you do for the glory of God, for it God we serve, and it is with God we receive<br \/>\nthe praise of &#8220;Well done good and faithful servant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been thinking a lot about doing what I do for the glory of God, and I have been trying to encourage my children to think about this as well. I think the true test of character is to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/the-character-test\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspirational"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/october-22-2017-Do-all-for-the-glory-of-god-L.A.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5khoZ-9z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameswritinganddesign.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}