{"id":4898,"date":"2017-08-28T15:11:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T15:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4898"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:03","slug":"musing-through-matthew-two-great-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4898","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew- Two Great Truths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse again today from Matthew 14:13 and the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the King.<\/em> <\/strong>In our verse for study today we find <strong><em>two great truths<\/em><\/strong>. One is when our Lord heard of the death of John the Baptist He departed by\u00a0ship into a\u00a0desert place for solitude. He was touched by this tragedy and sensed the need to be alone with the Father. How many times do we encounter trouble and\u00a0failed to get alone with Jesus. It is a must when life is touched by tragedy to get at His feet. The other truth is the crowd followed the boat by walking along the shore. The desire for a word from Jesus drew them to follow hard after Him. Lord, raise up some with these two great truths living in their hearts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse again today from Matthew 14:13 and the theme of Jesus the King. In our verse for study today we find two great truths. One is when our Lord [&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-4898","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\/4898","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=4898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5047,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions\/5047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}