{"id":3341,"date":"2012-08-29T10:51:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T10:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:26:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:26:01","slug":"faith-and-virtue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3341","title":{"rendered":"Faith And Virtue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from\u00a0II Peter 1:5 <strong><em>Peter&#8217;s precious pictures about the promise of divine transformation<\/em><\/strong>. Peter tells us if Christ\u00a0dwells in\u00a0us the outward life will begin to show traits of <strong><em>faith and virtue<\/em><\/strong>. Faith is our belief or creed that causes us\u00a0to wholly dependent upon Christ for everything. It is only increased by a strong relationship with the Bible and it is the aim of testing\u00a0in all trials. Faith is only given by God to those whom He saves.\u00a0Virtue\u00a0is\u00a0 moral excellency, courage or backbone to stand for what one believes about Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from\u00a0II Peter 1:5 Peter&#8217;s precious pictures about the promise of divine transformation. Peter tells us if Christ\u00a0dwells in\u00a0us the outward life will begin to show traits [&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-3341","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\/3341","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=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5548,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions\/5548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}