{"id":3262,"date":"2012-07-26T10:19:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T10:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3262"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:26:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:26:03","slug":"the-avenue-in-all-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3262","title":{"rendered":"The Avenue In All Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from\u00a0I Peter 1:7\u00a0and <strong><em>Peter&#8217;s precious pictures and precious trials.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em>I would turn our attention to\u00a0the thought\u00a0of <strong><em>an experience with\u00a0trials will\u00a0 uncover the avenue in all trials<\/em><\/strong>. Peter compares our\u00a0trials in their avenues to gold being tried in fire. Old timey\u00a0goldsmiths would melt down to a liquid their gold\u00a0in a crucible. He would heat it\u00a0red-hot\u00a0scrape all the debris that bubbled to the top. He would not stop until he saw his reflection in the gold. Our Lord will continue to bring us into the furnace of trials which\u00a0empties us of ourselves, He will conclude when He sees His reflection in us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from\u00a0I Peter 1:7\u00a0and Peter&#8217;s precious pictures and precious trials.\u00a0\u00a0I would turn our attention to\u00a0the thought\u00a0of an experience with\u00a0trials will\u00a0 uncover the avenue in all trials. [&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-3262","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\/3262","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=3262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5572,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions\/5572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}