{"id":1548,"date":"2010-06-14T11:37:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T11:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:18","slug":"a-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1548","title":{"rendered":"A River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse today from the last of<em><strong> Paul&#8217;s pictures of progress<\/strong><\/em> in Colossians 2: 7b. The word<em><strong>\u00a0abounding<\/strong><\/em> is the picture of a\u00a0river that is overflowing its banks. Paul tells us when we have taken our proper position of being a pilgrim, a tree, a building, and a student, we will erupt into and overflowing river of<em><strong> Thanksgiving<\/strong><\/em>. Paul said that in everything give thanks for this is His will for you. We are not to give thanks\u00a0for all things but in all thing. I wonder if the reason we are living among an unthankful\u00a0people, is because there is no progress in our Christian walk with the Lord. It is certainly something to examine and see where we stand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse today from the last of Paul&#8217;s pictures of progress in Colossians 2: 7b. The word\u00a0abounding is the picture of a\u00a0river that is overflowing its banks. Paul tells us [&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-1548","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\/1548","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=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6168,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions\/6168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}