{"id":1021,"date":"2010-04-12T11:55:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T11:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:50","slug":"the-observation-of-decreasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1021","title":{"rendered":"The Observation Of Decreasing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us muse again today from the life of David and Saul. I lay before us today the <em>Observation Of Decreasing<\/em> as it pertains to forgiveness. Why was David and Saul put together? It was so David could see the things in Saul that he didn&#8217;t care for were the same things that God saw in David that God didn&#8217;t care for. Abel had his Cain, Jacob his Esau, Issac his Ishmael, and John his Peter. They were all a mirror to one another of what God doesn&#8217;t care for in our lives. We often see this reflection in our children. David had so many more fleshly flaws than Saul. This was God&#8217;s way of revealing them to him. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from the life of David and Saul. I lay before us today the Observation Of Decreasing as it pertains to forgiveness. Why was David and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6217,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/6217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}