{"id":117,"date":"2008-12-29T14:23:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T14:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=117"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:29:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:29:47","slug":"me-first-mentality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Me First Mentality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I am back musing from the motel today. We are at East Hendersonville Baptist this week. The Lord has turned my heart to the story our Lord told in Luke 9: 59-61. When I first read them I thought our Lord is a hard task master. He wouldn&#8217;t let a potential follower go bury\u00a0his \u00a0father or another say good by to his family. A closer reading reveals the true reason. As we quote it here notice the high lighted section. And He said unto another Follow Me. But he said, Lord, suffer <em>me first <\/em>to go and bury my father. And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let <em>me first go<\/em> bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.\u00a0 It is that <em>me first<\/em> mentality he puts down. Let us in 09 put to \u00a0death this <em>me first<\/em> mentality.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am back musing from the motel today. We are at East Hendersonville Baptist this week. The Lord has turned my heart to the story our Lord told in Luke [&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-117","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\/117","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=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6525,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/6525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}