{"id":1231,"date":"2008-11-20T16:34:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T16:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:29:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:29:50","slug":"the-doing-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1231","title":{"rendered":"The Doing of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I ponder two phrases from our LORD&#8217;s teachings today. They are found in John 8: 28-29. The phrases are, &#8220;&#8230;<em>I do nothing of myself<\/em>&#8230;&#8221; and &#8220;&#8230; <em>for I do always those things that please the Father<\/em>&#8230;&#8221; When I think upon the words &#8221; <em>I do<\/em>&#8221; I am thrilled beyond measure. Our Saviour desires to do all for His people. In these verses I find some controls He puts on His doing. He can do only that which the Father directs. May we learn great\u00a0 lessons here. I can only do that which the Father directs. I can do all things through Christ\u00a0who strengths us. Just imagine what would happen if God&#8217;s people only did that which\u00a0the Father directs. The other control was to always please the Father. His Father later said, &#8220;This is my beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased&#8221;. Oh! May I <em>always\u00a0 do <\/em>that which will cause Him to say oneday, &#8221; Well done thy good and faithful servant&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ponder two phrases from our LORD&#8217;s teachings today. They are found in John 8: 28-29. The phrases are, &#8220;&#8230;I do nothing of myself&#8230;&#8221; and &#8220;&#8230; for I do always [&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-1231","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\/1231","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=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6556,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/6556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}