{"id":3246,"date":"2012-07-17T11:13:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T11:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:26:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:26:03","slug":"precious-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3246","title":{"rendered":"Precious Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us continue to muse from<strong><em> Peter&#8217;s precious pictures<\/em> <\/strong>in\u00a0I Peter 1:6-9.\u00a0The word precious\u00a0means rare, one-of-a-kind, and a value beyond calculation. I certainly had no problem with Peter putting the word precious and blood together but not <strong><em>precious and trials.<\/em><\/strong> The word trials speaks not only of sorrows and heart aches but temptation a solicitation to do evil. Peter says they are precious tailor-made just for the individual and valuable beyond calculation. What a phrase to rest in to know that our Lord has made and is making our trials and temptations precious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us continue to muse from Peter&#8217;s precious pictures in\u00a0I Peter 1:6-9.\u00a0The word precious\u00a0means rare, one-of-a-kind, and a value beyond calculation. I certainly had no problem with Peter putting 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-3246","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\/3246","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=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5578,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions\/5578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}