{"id":1402,"date":"2009-11-08T12:29:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T12:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=695"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:58","slug":"jacobs-struggle-with-his-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1402","title":{"rendered":"Jacob&#8217;s Struggle With His Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us muse today from Jacob&#8217;s life in Genesis 25:21-23 and 27. We find here his &#8216;<em>Struggle With His Position<\/em>&#8216;. In verses 21-23 we find his position was <em>&#8216;accounted through birth&#8217;<\/em>. His mother was told, though he be the second born, he would have all the rights of the first born. We find in verse 27 the position was <em>&#8216;accounted through becoming&#8217;<\/em>. Jacob was a spiritual man and Esau was the fleshly man. The boys grew and became. Esau, a man of the field or earth, and Jacob, plain, upright, complete, and undefiled. He was a tent dweller or pilgrim passing through this world. Let us not struggle with living here, but let our theme be, &#8216;This world is not my home, I&#8217;m just passing through&#8217;. Let us not struggle with this world but let us press on and not desire to be rooted deeper in this world. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Jacob&#8217;s life in Genesis 25:21-23 and 27. We find here his &#8216;Struggle With His Position&#8216;. In verses 21-23 we find his position was &#8216;accounted through [&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-1402","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\/1402","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=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6328,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/6328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}