{"id":12930,"date":"2025-08-07T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/?p=12930"},"modified":"2025-07-16T07:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:43:13","slug":"bind-and-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/07\/bind-and-write\/","title":{"rendered":"Bind and Write"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One-minute read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Beige-and-Brown-Vintage-Scrapbook-Youtube-Intro-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Beige-and-Brown-Vintage-Scrapbook-Youtube-Intro-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Beige-and-Brown-Vintage-Scrapbook-Youtube-Intro-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Beige-and-Brown-Vintage-Scrapbook-Youtube-Intro-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Beige-and-Brown-Vintage-Scrapbook-Youtube-Intro-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Beige-and-Brown-Vintage-Scrapbook-Youtube-Intro.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Love and faithfulness, the two covenant terms in Israel, describe their attitude towards the Lord.\u00a0 We must first love God before we can obey Him faithfully.\u00a0 And as we have talked about in previous days, we love because He first loved us.\u00a0 When we ask the Savior to live in our hearts, Jesus engraves His name in our being and begins the process of transforming our lives, leading us to abundant living with Him.\u00a0 Applying Christ\u2019s teachings and becoming fully devoted followers of God\u2019s Son will cause people to notice as we lead with love and kindness, seeing them through the lens of the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learning and memorizing God\u2019s word writes it on our hearts and binds it around our neck.\u00a0 As we face life\u2019s situations, we\u2019ll respond differently because of the knowledge we possess.\u00a0 Instead of letting our human tendencies dictate our actions, we\u2019ll begin to follow the promptings of the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 Our emotions will take a back seat as our faith leads the way.\u00a0 Faithfully with love, we will draw people to Jesus through our actions as we let His light shine brightly through us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Living in the Lord\u2019s favor opens doors we can\u2019t open ourselves.\u00a0 Blessings will rain from heaven as we align our hearts with God, follow His commands, and become more like Jesus with each day that passes.\u00a0 We won\u2019t achieve perfection until the Almighty calls us home, but we will experience an adventure like none other following Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Journal Question:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">How has Jesus imprinted Himself on your life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Random Act of Kindness:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">What\u2019s one way you can show faithfulness to Jesus today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-minute read. Love and faithfulness, the two covenant terms in Israel, describe their attitude towards the Lord.\u00a0 We must first love God before we can obey Him faithfully.\u00a0 And as we have talked about in previous days, we love because He first loved us.\u00a0 When we ask the Savior to live in our hearts, Jesus&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/07\/bind-and-write\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bind and Write<\/span><\/a><\/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-12930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12933,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930\/revisions\/12933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}