{"id":2961,"date":"2012-03-11T12:51:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T12:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:26:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:26:53","slug":"love-and-subdues-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=2961","title":{"rendered":"Love Subdues Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from\u00a0I Corinthians 13:5b\u00a0and <strong><em>the sufficiency of Christ&#8217;s love<\/em><\/strong>. I am looking at <strong><em>love&#8217;s sufficient qualities.<\/em> <\/strong>Today we look at the last of <strong><em>the outward qualities<\/em> <\/strong>in the\u00a0thought of l<strong><em>ove subdues evil.<\/em> <\/strong>This love is never exasperated. It is hard to get on its last nerve. It has\u00a0a high threshold of a boiling point. It refuses to climb up on the handle and fly off. It thinks no evil and never contemplates revenge or getting even. It does not hold grudges which often becomes the root of bitterness. It is not jealous or suspicious\u00a0of another. It draws a veil\u00a0over the faults of another and seeks to forget them. It has no\u00a0ill opinions of others. This is the love of God which is shed abroad in the heart of the believer by the Holy Ghost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from\u00a0I Corinthians 13:5b\u00a0and the sufficiency of Christ&#8217;s love. I am looking at love&#8217;s sufficient qualities. Today we look at the last of the outward qualities in [&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-2961","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\/2961","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=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5667,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions\/5667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}