{"id":77999,"date":"2025-07-29T17:09:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=77999"},"modified":"2025-07-29T22:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:35:00","slug":"no-turning-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/29\/no-turning-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Our declaration: No turning back"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/th.bing.com\/th\/id\/OIP.SdssOKSSnRcjg_ufj-h3WAAAAA?w=225&amp;h=180&amp;c=7&amp;r=0&amp;o=5&amp;dpr=1.5&amp;pid=1.7\" alt=\"Image result for Follow Jesus Footsteps Clip Art\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have no reason, no excuses; no, I will not look back. Having placed my hands on the plough, would I dare look back? \u00a0Of course not!\u00a0 As I have, undoubtedly, tasted of His kindness, seen His goodness, experienced His mercy and compassion, I know, without a shadow of doubt, that the Lord is good and His mercies, which are new every morning, endure forever.<\/p>\n<p>I have counted the cost; said goodbye to the world and to the pleasures of sin; my mind is made up! I have decided to go God\u2019s way for the rest of my life. What this means is that I am not turning back. I have experienced His love that is deeper than the deepest ocean and higher than the highest mountain. Can anything separate me from such amazing love?<\/p>\n<p>I am following my loving shepherd who he leads me to green pastures and still waters and\u00a0 look forward to dwelling in His house forever. As an obedient sheep, I will go wherever He wants me to go, imitate and serve Him so that I can be a good example to the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Never, Never, I will never, never, I will never, never never, turn back<\/em>!<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Gaise Baba<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>I have no reason, no excuses; no, I will not look back. Having placed my hands on the plough, would I dare&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-60-second-motivator"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Follow-Jesus.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78024,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77999\/revisions\/78024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}