{"id":1546,"date":"2010-06-09T19:03:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T19:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:18","slug":"a-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1546","title":{"rendered":"A Building"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let us muse\u00a0today from Colossians 2: 7b an\u00a0another of Paul’s pictures of progress<\/em>. We are told today of our\u00a0need of being built up.<\/em> The term is an architectural term\u00a0that is in the present tense. It literally says we should always be, being, built up. When God saves us He places us in and on the foundation of Christ His Son. We are through\u00a0the word of God to build in our bodies a temple for God to abide in. He says in John 15, if\u00a0ye abide in me and I abide in you,\u00a0ye shall ask what you\u00a0will and it shall be done unto you. The word abide means to feel at home in. Are we building a temple within us\u00a0that Christ feels at home in?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let us muse\u00a0today from Colossians 2: 7b an\u00a0another of Paul’s pictures of progress. We are told today of our\u00a0need of being built up. The term is an architectural term\u00a0that is […]<\/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-1546","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\/1546","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=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6171,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions\/6171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}