{"id":4361,"date":"2014-05-21T14:19:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T14:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4361"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:42","slug":"musing-through-matthew-roman-soliders-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4361","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew- Roman Solider&#8217;s Humility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 8:8-9 and\u00a0the theme of <strong><em>Jesus King.<\/em><\/strong>In our text for today we find further evidence of the<strong><em> humility of the Roman soldier<\/em> <\/strong>who desired his servant boy to be healed. In his request he asked that the Lord not trouble Himself by coming to the house. He said I am a soldier with authority to just say\u00a0\u00a0a word here and things will happen over there. He was confident that our Lord had such authority. He could say\u00a0 but\u00a0a word\u00a0and great things would happen. Lord, give us in this\u00a0hour a\u00a0confidence in the power of your word and\u00a0go forth and speak it to a sin sick\u00a0world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 8:8-9 and\u00a0the theme of Jesus King.In our text for today we find further evidence of the humility of the Roman soldier who desired [&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-4361","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\/4361","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=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5244,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions\/5244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}