{"id":1559,"date":"2010-06-29T10:56:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T10:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:17","slug":"a-seeking-of-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1559","title":{"rendered":"A Seeking Of Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse again today from\u00a0Colossians 3:1 in our\u00a0thoughts on<em><strong> heaven to go to heaven in<\/strong><\/em>. Today we find in order to have heaven on earth there must be<em><strong>\u00a0a seeking\u00a0practice<\/strong><\/em>. The word seek \u00a0has the idea of looking up. In Hebrews 12 we find the words looking unto Jesus. In order to look unto Him we must look away from this world. We cannot do both at the same time.&#8221;The psychologists says,<em><strong>\u00a0 look within<\/strong><\/em>. The opportunist says,<em><strong> look around<\/strong><\/em>. The optimist says, look ahead. The pessimist says,<em><strong> look out<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0The cultus says,<em><strong> look down<\/strong><\/em>, but God says we are to\u00a0always<em><strong> look up.&#8221;(<\/strong><\/em>Phillips) Let us look today to Christ who is sitting at the right hand of the Father. It is there\u00a0that He is resting, while ruling and\u00a0reigning over all things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse again today from\u00a0Colossians 3:1 in our\u00a0thoughts on heaven to go to heaven in. Today we find in order to have heaven on earth there must be\u00a0a seeking\u00a0practice. The [&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-1559","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\/1559","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=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6156,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions\/6156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}