{"id":4577,"date":"2015-08-11T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4577"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:09","slug":"musing-through-matthew-giving-a-cup-of-cold-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4577","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew- Giving A Cup Of Cold Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from the last verse\u00a0of chapter\u00a010 of Matthew, verse 42 and the theme of Jesus the king. In our\u00a0text for\u00a0today we are told <strong><em>to\u00a0give<\/em> <\/strong>to the little ones, those poor or weaker among us <strong><em>a cup of cold water<\/em><\/strong>. This cup of cold water illustrates something that is not of great value to us but to another\u00a0it is\u00a0like a gold mine in value. When we give to someone a cup of cold water it\u00a0is like a banquet to them. It will be the grounds of great fellowship and communion\u00a0but greater than that it\u00a0will assure you of a great reward over in glory land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from the last verse\u00a0of chapter\u00a010 of Matthew, verse 42 and the theme of Jesus the king. In our\u00a0text for\u00a0today we are told to\u00a0give to the [&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-4577","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\/4577","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=4577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5162,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions\/5162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}