{"id":488298,"date":"2019-09-02T03:27:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T08:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gwenshamblin.com\/?p=488298"},"modified":"2019-09-02T03:27:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T08:27:45","slug":"our-most-important-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gwenshamblinbooks.com\/?p=488298","title":{"rendered":"Our Most Important Pursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you tell me what else matters than pursuing this relationship with God, because the world is all fading. It is all passing away.\u00a0 When it is gone\u2014and it will be destroyed \u2014what will you have left? There is faith and there is hope, but the greatest of these is this investment into a love relationship, because on that Great Day, that is what resurrects you. If you could put every dollar you had into something that would guarantee your resurrection, life after death, would you not be investing in it? 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