{"id":1118,"date":"2009-10-13T10:15:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T14:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2009-10-13T10:15:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T14:15:50","slug":"reader-responds-with-quote-i-e-lust-an-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/reader-responds-with-quote-i-e-lust-an-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader Responds with quote (i.e. Lust: an Opportunity)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Karen Moret Harrison wrote:<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/a>“If there is an Enemy of Souls, one thing he cannot abide is the desire for purity. Hence a man’s or woman’s passions become his battleground. The Love of Souls does not prevent this. I was perplexed because it seemed to me He should prevent it, but He doesn’t. He wants us to learn to use our weapons.” ~Elisabeth Elliot<\/span><\/p>\n

En garde!<\/span><\/p>\n

It would seem that we must take up armor against attacks that target our weak points, yet use the attacks themselves as God’s inescapable challenges to strengthen ourselves, enrich our dependence on Him, and I dare say, \u00a0hone our passions for our best interests, and God’s work.<\/p>\n

Thank you for writing, friend! “Allez!”<\/p>\n

How about you? Leave your \u00a0thoughts and comments, please. :)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lust as an Opportunity, Elizabeth Elliot quote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,76],"tags":[184,249,285,378,13,14,15,17,952,1099,1120,1185,1472,1524,1597,37,39,45,2054,2083,49,52,2356,2357,2489,2534,59,60,64,2777,2778,2966,2996,3195,74,75,6539,84,3408,3430,87,88,90,3768],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-spirituality","tag-allez","tag-armor","tag-attacks","tag-belief","tag-christianity","tag-christians","tag-church","tag-community","tag-dependence","tag-elizabeth-elliot","tag-en-garde","tag-experiencing-god","tag-god","tag-grace","tag-healing","tag-hope","tag-integrating-spirituality","tag-life-as-prayer","tag-listening-to-god","tag-love-of-our-soul","tag-lust","tag-modesty","tag-nipplegate","tag-nipples","tag-passion","tag-personal-growth","tag-practicing-the-presence-of-god","tag-prayer","tag-quotes","tag-reader-comments","tag-reader-response","tag-satan","tag-scripture","tag-spiritual-formation","tag-spiritual-growth","tag-spiritual-practices","tag-spirituality","tag-temptation","tag-the-presence-of-god","tag-thoughts-on-god","tag-walking-with-god","tag-warfare","tag-worldviews","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}