{"id":173,"date":"2014-12-20T21:09:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T21:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dictionary.tellingthetruth.info\/?p=173"},"modified":"2016-11-02T12:01:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T12:01:16","slug":"worthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/worthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Worthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A common refrain heard in meetings: <em>I long to be more worthy in the coming days<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><em>Hymns Old &#038; New<\/em> No. 282:<br \/>\n<em>His way is best; I follow on,<br \/>\nJust where His bleeding feet have gone;<br \/>\n<strong>My one desire, to \u25baworthy\u25c4 be<\/strong>,<br \/>\nAnd fill the place prepared for me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some ways 2x2s become more worthy are by submitting, suffering, obeying without questioning, denying self, doing good works and having a good word, etc. Homes where the Fellowship meetings are held are considered <em>worthy<\/em> homes.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew 10:11, 13 &#8211; <em>And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is <strong>worthy<\/strong>; and there abide till ye go thence. Vs 13 And if the house be <strong>worthy<\/strong>, let your peace come upon it<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Worker Quote: <em>You can see the great responsibility that rests upon every child of God if we are to be <strong>worthy <\/strong>of the place that is ours in this Heavenly Kingdom<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trutharchive.net\/jack-carroll---church-in-the-home---bakersfield-ca---1946\">Jack Carroll<\/a>, Bakersfield, CA, 1946)<\/p>\n<p><em>We cannot just live good lives and expect or obligate God to accept us into a saved eternity, but we live to be<strong> worthy<\/strong> of such. Being <strong>worthy<\/strong> is our goal. Live each day with this in mind that God has prepared a place for us, and we long to be <strong>worthy<\/strong> of it. If we live to fill the place given us on earth as we should, we will be <strong>worthy<\/strong> of the place prepared for us in eternity. If we can live like this our lives will be richer and better. Live with the thought in mind &#8220;and death would return our souls to thee&#8221;&#8230; and <strong>&#8220;worthy<\/strong> be, to fill the place prepared for me&#8221;<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trutharchive.net\/donald-d-karnes---funeral-notes---mercer-s-funeral-home-holton-kansas---february-11-2004-wednesday-7-p-m\">Donald Karnes Funeral<\/a>, Holton, KS, 2004).<\/p>\n<p>Worker Quote: <em>If we are to &#8220;walk <em>worthy<\/em> of the vocation wherewith ye are called,&#8221; we must keep lowly and meek. The times we feel the most <strong>worthy<\/strong> may be the time when we are the most <strong>unworthy<\/strong><\/em> (Arthur Benton<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trutharchive.net\/arthur-benton---workers-meeting---cid-north-carolina---august-29-september-1-1946\">Arthur Benton<\/a>, Cid, NC, 1946).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common refrain heard in meetings: I long to be more worthy in the coming days. Hymns Old &#038; New No. 282: His way is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521,"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth.circlescosites.com\/dictionary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}