{"id":4392,"date":"2014-07-15T15:50:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T15:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4392"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:41","slug":"musing-through-matthew-following-him-is-rough-sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4392","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew- Following Him Is Rough Sometimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 8:23 and the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the King<\/em><\/strong>. In our text for today we are confronted with the truth that <strong><em>following\u00a0Him is rough sometimes<\/em><\/strong>. The disciples followed our Lord into the boat. They were wise to do so\u00a0and very\u00a0safe in His presence\u00a0but not secure from raging storms of\u00a0trouble. I&#8217;d rather be in a boat with Him in the midst of the storm\u00a0than sailing on smooth\u00a0seas and He is\u00a0not in the boat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 8:23 and the theme of Jesus the King. In our text for today we are confronted with the truth that following\u00a0Him is rough [&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-4392","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\/4392","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=4392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5233,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions\/5233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}