{"id":4390,"date":"2014-07-14T16:26:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T16:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4390"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:41","slug":"musing-through-matthew-a-me-first-mentality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4390","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew- A Me First Mentality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 8:21-22 the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the\u00a0King<\/em><\/strong>. In our text for today we see <strong><em>a me first mentality<\/em><\/strong>. When I first meditated on these verses\u00a0some time ago I was amazed\u00a0that our\u00a0Lord\u00a0was against a follower going back and burying their dead dad. When I took a closer look it was not that He was against burying dead\u00a0dads\u00a0but He is strongly against <strong><em>a\u00a0me first mentality<\/em><\/strong>. The man said suffer <strong><em>me first<\/em> <\/strong>to go and bury my father. Our Lord will never allow anyone or anything to take His place as the most important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 8:21-22 the theme of Jesus the\u00a0King. In our text for today we see a me first mentality. When I first meditated on these [&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-4390","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\/4390","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=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5234,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions\/5234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}