{"id":3269,"date":"2012-08-02T10:59:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T10:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3269"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:26:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:26:03","slug":"end-of-trials1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3269","title":{"rendered":"End Of Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from <strong><em>Peter&#8217;s precious pictures<\/em> <\/strong>in I Peter 1:8-9. We are looking in these days at <strong><em>precious trials<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0I draw our attention\u00a0to <strong>the means to an end of trials.<\/strong>\u00a0In verse 8 Peter mentions an order of progression that trials produce\u00a0 and they are love, believe, and rejoice. Notice the center holding it all together is our faith or believeth in the Lord. Jesus told Thomas after the upper room experience that He was drawn more to those who have believe and yet have\u00a0never seen more than those who see and then believe. Trials demands us to continue by seeing Him that is invisible\u00a0as Moses of Ole did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Peter&#8217;s precious pictures in I Peter 1:8-9. We are looking in these days at precious trials.\u00a0I draw our attention\u00a0to the means to an end of [&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-3269","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\/3269","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=3269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5570,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269\/revisions\/5570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}