{"id":353048,"date":"2026-09-22T07:12:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/?p=353048"},"modified":"2026-09-22T17:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T21:18:09","slug":"the-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/post\/the-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #f2f8fc; padding: 2em; border-left: 5px solid #ccc; margin: 1em 0;\"><p>Today you have proclaimed the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and that you will obey His voice. (Deuteronomy 26:17)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nWhen we choose to follow God, leaving darkness and entering His marvelous light, and commit to keeping His statutes, commandments, and judgments, we establish an eternal covenant of faithfulness to His voice. His wise counsel guides our thoughts and leads us to salvation.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Today you have proclaimed the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and that you will obey His voice. (Deuteronomy 26:17) &nbsp; When we choose to follow God, leaving darkness and entering His marvelous light, and commit to keeping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":353050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323,6248,377],"tags":[],"site":[],"class_list":["post-353048","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\/353048","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=353048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353051,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353048\/revisions\/353051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353048"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=353048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}