{"id":3657,"date":"2013-04-08T15:45:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T15:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3657"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:25:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:25:55","slug":"the-strengthening-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3657","title":{"rendered":"The Strengthening Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us continue to muse today from\u00a0Isaiah 40:\u00a09-10 and the theme of <strong><em>Isaiah&#8217;s Christ<\/em><\/strong>. In our text today Isaiah asked us to behold our God. The old mountain Sunday school teacher said that the word behold means lookee lookee in the\u00a0Hebrew. When we look in this text we are confronted with <strong><em>the strengthing Christ.<\/em><\/strong> I am reminded today in order to have His strength we must become weak. He brings low in order to bring high.\u00a0He hurts in order to help. He causes a lack that He may supply it. No wonder in the song Jesus loves me this I know we find the words we are weak but\u00a0Thou art\u00a0mighty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us continue to muse today from\u00a0Isaiah 40:\u00a09-10 and the theme of Isaiah&#8217;s Christ. In our text today Isaiah asked us to behold our God. The old mountain Sunday school [&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-3657","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\/3657","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=3657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5443,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions\/5443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}