{"id":15748,"date":"2017-06-30T10:04:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T14:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=15748"},"modified":"2017-06-30T10:04:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T14:04:55","slug":"do-it-now-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=15748","title":{"rendered":"Do It Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Agree with your adversary quickly\u2026 \u2014Matthew 5:25<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this verse, Jesus Christ laid down a very important principle by saying, \u201cDo what you know you must do\u2014 now. Do it quickly. If you don\u2019t, an inevitable process will begin to work \u2018till you have paid the last penny\u2019 (Matthew 5:26) in pain, agony, and distress.\u201d God\u2019s laws are unchangeable and there is no escape from them. The teachings of Jesus always penetrate right to the heart of our being.<\/p>\n<p>Wanting to make sure that my adversary gives me all my rights is a natural thing. But Jesus says that it is a matter of inescapable and eternal importance to me that I pay my adversary what I owe him. From our Lord\u2019s standpoint it doesn\u2019t matter whether I am cheated or not, but what does matter is that I don\u2019t cheat someone else. Am I insisting on having my own rights, or am I paying what I owe from Jesus Christ\u2019s standpoint?<\/p>\n<p>Do it quickly\u2014 bring yourself to judgment now. In moral and spiritual matters, you must act immediately. If you don\u2019t, the inevitable, relentless process will begin to work. God is determined to have His child as pure, clean, and white as driven snow, and as long as there is disobedience in any point of His teaching, He will allow His Spirit to use whatever process it may take to bring us to obedience. The fact that we insist on proving that we are right is almost always a clear indication that we have some point of disobedience. No wonder the Spirit of God so strongly urges us to stay steadfastly in the light! (see John 3:19-21).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgree with your adversary quickly\u2026.\u201d Have you suddenly reached a certain place in your relationship with someone, only to find that you have anger in your heart? Confess it quickly\u2014 make it right before God. Be reconciled to that person\u2014 do it now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agree with your adversary quickly\u2026 \u2014Matthew 5:25 In this verse, Jesus Christ laid down a very important principle by saying, \u201cDo what you know you must do\u2014 now. Do it quickly. If you don\u2019t, an inevitable process will begin to work \u2018till you have paid the last penny\u2019 (Matthew 5:26) in pain, agony, and distress.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15748"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15749,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15748\/revisions\/15749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}