{"id":3259,"date":"2012-07-25T10:12:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T10:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:26:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:26:03","slug":"experience-with-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3259","title":{"rendered":"Experience With Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from\u00a0I Peter\u00a01:7 and <strong><em>Peter&#8217;s precious pictures and precious trials<\/em><\/strong>. Let us look at <strong><em>an experience with trials<\/em> <\/strong>today. I would be honest with you I would rather have an exposition of trials\u00a0than an\u00a0experience with trials. I noticed in our text <strong><em>an experience with trials will uncover the\u00a0aim of all trials<\/em><\/strong>. Peter speaks here of the trial of our\u00a0faith. All trials\u00a0are aimed at our faith\u00a0 which is our belief or confidence in another. The word trial here is the one use for examining a doctor of medicine before he is given his Dr.&#8217;s degree. If you had to have brain surgery would you rather have a doctor who may\u00a0Cs in his classes or one who made all As? Faith is the only thing that pleases God. It is the only currency heaven recognizes. It can only be increased or enhanced by much contact with the Word of God and trials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from\u00a0I Peter\u00a01:7 and Peter&#8217;s precious pictures and precious trials. Let us look at an experience with trials today. I would be honest with you I [&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-3259","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\/3259","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=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5573,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions\/5573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}