{"id":351417,"date":"2026-05-12T07:48:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/?p=351417"},"modified":"2026-05-12T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:49:00","slug":"looking-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/post\/looking-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #f2f8fc; padding: 2em; border-left: 5px solid #ccc; margin: 1em 0;\"><p>But Jesus said to him, \u2018No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.\u2019 (Luke 9:62)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nTo enter the Kingdom of God, in addition to surrendering oneself entirely, it is necessary to leave everything behind, to cling to nothing; it is necessary to put Him first and follow His guidance, always in obedience to His Word.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; But Jesus said to him, \u2018No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.\u2019 (Luke 9:62) &nbsp; To enter the Kingdom of God, in addition to surrendering oneself entirely, it is necessary to leave everything behind, to cling to nothing; it is necessary to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":351419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323,6248,377],"tags":[],"site":[],"class_list":["post-351417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-school-of-faith","category-ester-bezerra","category-women"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351418,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351417\/revisions\/351418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351417"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=351417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}