{"id":4765,"date":"2026-05-29T12:25:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/?p=4765"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:26:07","slug":"devoted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/devoted\/","title":{"rendered":"Devoted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s not all the things you do for the Lord that are pleasing&#8230;it&#8217;s a heart devoted to Him that He desires&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Psalm 51:16-17 ESV<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/bible.com\/bible\/59\/psa.51.16-17.ESV\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ben-white-YS3Q5vroxtg-unsplash-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ben-white-YS3Q5vroxtg-unsplash-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ben-white-YS3Q5vroxtg-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ben-white-YS3Q5vroxtg-unsplash-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ben-white-YS3Q5vroxtg-unsplash-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ben-white-YS3Q5vroxtg-unsplash-2048x1367.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not all the things you do for the Lord that are pleasing&#8230;it&#8217;s a heart devoted to Him that He desires&#8230; For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ben-white-YS3Q5vroxtg-unsplash.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4767,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions\/4767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}