{"id":8695,"date":"2023-06-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/posts\/give-me-your-heart\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:49:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T05:49:32","slug":"give-me-your-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/give-me-your-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Me Your Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you expect God to believe that we really love Him? He will believe if He sees us love without any discrimination. This is what He meant when He said: \u201cMy son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways\u201d (Proverbs 23:26). When God occupies our hearts and our eyes, that is, when He sees us emulating Him in love; loving the old and the young, the poor and the rich, the righteous and the sinner, the way we love Him\u2026, He will believe!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you expect God to believe that we really love Him? He will believe if He sees us love without any discrimination. This is what He meant when He said: \u201cMy son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways\u201d (Proverbs 23:26). When God occupies our hearts and our eyes, that is, ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[1327,1276,2258,1271,2259],"class_list":["post-8695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-christian-love","tag-divine-love","tag-heart-for-god","tag-orthodox-spirituality","tag-spiritual-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8904,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695\/revisions\/8904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}