{"id":4568,"date":"2015-08-05T14:11:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T14:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4568"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:09","slug":"musing-through-matthew-take-up-your-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4568","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-Take Up Your Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us in muse again today from Matthew 10:38 and the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the King<\/em><\/strong>. In our text for today we have the admonition to <strong><em>take up your cross<\/em><\/strong>. We learn here that all of us have a cross. I find a couple of things that will make our cross a light affliction. One is to not drag our cross but to take it up. A cross that is dragged is an extremely heavy cross. The other is to follow after Christ. When we make a big to do about His cross it makes ours an easy yoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us in muse again today from Matthew 10:38 and the theme of Jesus the King. In our text for today we have the admonition to take up your cross. [&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-4568","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\/4568","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=4568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5166,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568\/revisions\/5166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}