{"id":1588,"date":"2010-08-08T11:19:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T11:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:15","slug":"scripture-input-and-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1588","title":{"rendered":"Scripture Input And Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again\u00a0today from Colossians 3:16a and<em><strong> Scripture input that\u00a0gives direction<\/strong><\/em>. In the phrase let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, I am interested in the meaning of the phrase in all wisdom. The word wisdom is not that which comes from books but from The Book. James says it comes from above. It is the input of the Word of God that gives us\u00a0the directions\u00a0like putting together\u00a0of missing\u00a0puzzle pieces. No wonder our churches are full of people making foolish decisions and going down dead ends\u00a0in their lives. We do very little if any of the studying, memorizing,\u00a0or musing on\u00a0the Scriptures and thus we have\u00a0 little living by it or letting it be that control, counselor, companion, and\u00a0guide of our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again\u00a0today from Colossians 3:16a and Scripture input that\u00a0gives direction. In the phrase let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, I am interested [&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-1588","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\/1588","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=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6127,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions\/6127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}