{"id":4276,"date":"2014-03-01T12:48:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T12:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4276"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:43","slug":"musing-through-matthew-flower-gazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4276","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew- Flower Gazing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 6:28-29 and the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the King<\/em><\/strong>. In today&#8217;s text our King gives another replacement for worry which is <strong><em>flower gazing<\/em><\/strong>. I think of the fruit trees, roses, and beautiful lilies they do not sit around struggling to produce fruit or beauty. They just cooperate with their Creator and He does it all. Lord let me wear what you give me and be more concerned to be\u00a0robed in the righteousness of Christ than the finest\u00a0clothes this\u00a0world can offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 6:28-29 and the theme of Jesus the King. In today&#8217;s text our King gives another replacement for worry which is flower gazing. I [&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-4276","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\/4276","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=4276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5274,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions\/5274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}