{"id":1440,"date":"2010-01-10T13:02:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T13:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=819"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:55","slug":"principle-of-the-arrival-of-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1440","title":{"rendered":"Principle Of The Arrival Of Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us muse today from James 1:2 and <em>&#8216;The Principle Of The Arrival Of Trials&#8217;<\/em>. The text uses the word &#8216;<em>when<\/em>&#8216; and not &#8216;<em>if&#8217;<\/em> to tell of their arrival. It is not a thing of possiblity that they will come but <em>when<\/em> they will come. You can expect them. It is only a matter of time. Peter tells us not to count trials as a strange thing or foreigner when they knock on our door. Job said, &#8216;Man born of a woman will only be here a few days and they will be full of trouble&#8217;. If your Mother was a woman you can count on trouble. A television faith healer use to come on, pointing at the monitor, saying &#8216;Something good is going to happen to\u00a0 you today&#8217;. The Bible reminds us that there is a greater possiblity of something bad happening rather than good. Let us remember the bad will be worked together for good by our God. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from James 1:2 and &#8216;The Principle Of The Arrival Of Trials&#8217;. The text uses the word &#8216;when&#8216; and not &#8216;if&#8217; to tell of their arrival. It [&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-1440","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\/1440","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=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6286,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions\/6286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}