{"id":3189,"date":"2012-06-16T10:29:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T10:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:26:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:26:04","slug":"proverbs-precious-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3189","title":{"rendered":"Proverb&#8217;s Precious Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin today to muse from Proverbs 3:13-15 and <strong><em>past precious pictures<\/em> <\/strong>from the Old Testament. Today we look at the <strong><em>Proverb&#8217;s precious pictures<\/em><\/strong>. In this text Solomon speaks of <strong><em>precious wisdom<\/em><\/strong>. Let me remind us of the definition of precious which is rare, costly, beyond calculation, and one-of-a-kind. The word <strong><em>wisdom<\/em><\/strong> here means to be exceedingly skillful in discerning and understanding the\u00a0times. James tells us this wisdom comes from above and it is pure, peaceable, gentle, full of mercy, and creates in us\u00a0the fruit of righteousness. God gives it liberally to those who ask for it in\u00a0faith, nothing wavering and no double mindedness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin today to muse from Proverbs 3:13-15 and past precious pictures from the Old Testament. Today we look at the Proverb&#8217;s precious pictures. In this text Solomon speaks [&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-3189","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\/3189","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=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5594,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions\/5594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}