{"id":3907,"date":"2013-08-26T10:44:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T10:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3907"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:49","slug":"musing-through-matthew-fleeing-and-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3907","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-Fleeing And Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Matthew 2:13 and the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the King<\/em><\/strong>. Let our text remind us today that having Jesus does not exempt us from troubles. God warned this precious couple that danger was on the horizon\u00a0and they <strong><em>fled<\/em><\/strong> to Egypt. To have Him with us will often\u00a0demand of us\u00a0much <strong><em>waiting<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0I do not mind waiting if He does\u00a0it quick. I find this is a funny statement but often so true. Let us be sensitive to a word from Him even if it means changing locations or long periods of waiting on Him. It will be worth it all when we see Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Matthew 2:13 and the theme of Jesus the King. Let our text remind us today that having Jesus does not exempt us from troubles. God [&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-3907","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\/3907","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=3907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5380,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions\/5380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}