{"id":1580,"date":"2010-07-25T11:35:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T11:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:15","slug":"robes-of-humbleness-and-meekness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1580","title":{"rendered":"Robes Of Humbleness And Meekness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us continue to muse from Colossians 3:12 and<em><strong> all dressed up with somewhere to go<\/strong><\/em>. When one has put on the new man of Christ He will display himself in some marvelous changes. One is <em><strong>the humbleness of mind<\/strong><\/em>. In Paul&#8217;s day\u00a0pride was the mark of strength. Humility is the mark of strength in God&#8217;s eye. Humility sees oneself in the will of God, which gives us the ability to put Christ first, others second, and our self always dead last. The second is <em><strong>meekness<\/strong><\/em> which is not a weakness, but one who possesses all power under control. The word was used to describe a wind, and a\u00a0healing medicine, are a broken colt.\u00a0A wind can\u00a0become a storm, medicine can kill, and a colt can bolt, but under control, what beauty we have. We do not need lose our temper when placed under His control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us continue to muse from Colossians 3:12 and all dressed up with somewhere to go. When one has put on the new man of Christ He will display himself [&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-1580","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\/1580","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=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6135,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions\/6135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}