{"id":1070,"date":"2014-11-21T15:05:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T15:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2014-12-23T07:12:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T07:12:03","slug":"suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"Suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/suffering.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/suffering.jpg\" alt=\"Suffering\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1071\" \/><\/a>Suffering is a natural phenomenon for a Christian in this world. We live in a world that is not meant to be our home. A world that destroyed \u201cperfect love\u201d 2000 years ago. Yet, Jesus said to take heart and have courage for He had conquered the world. As we work out our salvation \u201din fear and trembling,\u201d Christ promised that He would finish the work He started in us. Christ receives His greatest glory when our faith is demonstrated through suffering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suffering is a natural phenomenon for a Christian in this world. We live in a world that is not meant to be our home. A world that destroyed \u201cperfect love\u201d 2000 years ago. Yet, Jesus said to take heart and have courage for He had conquered the world. As we work out our salvation \u201din [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfZYJd-hg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}