{"id":40198,"date":"2025-08-17T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/?p=40198"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:13:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:13:23","slug":"is-it-all-just-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/is-it-all-just-a-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it all just a game?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am almost bursting with rage inside. It has been a long time since I have been as angry as I am right now. I am standing on a football pitch with a dozen young people. All day long, I had been looking forward to a good game of football in perfect weather conditions. But I realised that my teammates were not taking the game seriously at all. Rules were ignored, there was no ambition, and there was a lot of talking \u2013 overall, the whole thing was more like a coffee party than a football match.<br>For a really good football match, it is important that the basic rules are followed and that there is a certain level of seriousness, otherwise the whole thing quickly ends up as a coffee party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The football match is not essential. Not everyone loves football as much as I do \u2013 I have to accept that. We are all part of creation. If there is a Creator, the question of our relationship with him is absolutely relevant. I believe that we are not a product of chance. I trust that God created the earth with all its facets \u2013 including me. A successful and reconciled life springs from an orderly relationship with our Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What rules do you use to \u201cplay\u201d your life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Applicable Bible text:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/KJV\/Romans1%3A20-23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Romans 1:20-23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am almost bursting with rage inside. It has been a long time since I have been as angry as I am right now. I am standing on a football pitch with a dozen young people. All day long, I had been looking forward to a good game of football in perfect weather conditions. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en_blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40200,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40198\/revisions\/40200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}