{"id":2902,"date":"2012-02-12T15:16:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T15:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=2902"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:26:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:26:54","slug":"the-superiority-of-christ-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=2902","title":{"rendered":"The Superiority Of Christ Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought for a few days\u00a0 we would muse from I Corinthians\u00a013\u00a0since this is\u00a0valentine and the\u00a0love month and surely this is the love chapter. I want to look at <strong><em>the superiority of Christ&#8217;s love<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0Let us draw our attention to\u00a0 the earthly definition of love. We often confuse love with two other four letter words. They are lust and like. In the middle of lust is the letters US which we are consumed with which is ourselves. In the center of like is the letter I \u00a0which we are doubly full of. In our natural state and at\u00a0our best we can only show\u00a0lust or\u00a0liking towards others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought for a few days\u00a0 we would muse from I Corinthians\u00a013\u00a0since this is\u00a0valentine and the\u00a0love month and surely this is the love chapter. I want to look at 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-2902","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\/2902","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=2902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5685,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions\/5685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}