{"id":2697,"date":"2009-01-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/contentfeeds\/2009\/01\/bill-hybels-day-21-where-you-s.html"},"modified":"2009-01-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T00:00:00","slug":"bill-hybels-day-21-where-you-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2009\/01\/bill-hybels-day-21-where-you-s.html","title":{"rendered":"Bill Hybels Day 21: Where You Serve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Welcome back to Beliefnet&#8217;s exclusive Bill Hybels devotional, &#8220;Living with Grander Vision.&#8221; This feed will appear in your profile every day for three full weeks. Did you miss any entries? Just stay subscribed, and the feed will begin again at the end of its cycle. <\/strong><br \/>\nEverywhere you turn, you will encounter people with withered parts.<br \/>\n<i>People with withered minds<\/i><br \/>\nwho find themselves ensnared by psychological scars or sinful thoughts or selfish motives.<br \/>\n<i>People with withered hearts<\/i><br \/>\nwho see no purpose in today and have no hope for tomorrow.<br \/>\n<i>People with withered bodies<\/i><br \/>\nwho feel encumbered and who struggle to accomplish the most basic of daily tasks.<br \/>\n<i>People with withered souls<\/i><br \/>\nwho don&#8217;t yet know that there is a God who loves them and wants to relate with them.<br \/>\n___<br \/>\nConsider where you serve today:<br \/>\nIn your family<br \/>\nIn key friendships<br \/>\nIn business<br \/>\nIn your community<br \/>\nIn your church<br \/>\nHow do your own past seasons of &#8220;witheredness&#8221; help you serve people who have withered parts&#8211;aspects of life that are shrunken and thinned out and slowly drying up?<br \/>\nThank God for the times when you have felt withered&#8211;<br \/>\nmentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually.<br \/>\nAsk him for an extra measure of grace as you serve the withered among you today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to Beliefnet&#8217;s exclusive Bill Hybels devotional, &#8220;Living with Grander Vision.&#8221; This feed will appear in your profile every day for three full weeks. 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