{"id":1720,"date":"2011-12-07T10:44:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T14:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2011-12-07T10:44:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T14:44:40","slug":"remaining-committed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1720","title":{"rendered":"Remaining Committed"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cBlessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.\u00a0Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.\u201d \u2013 Matthew 5:11-12 (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>Many times each day we\u2019re in positions where we could reach out in Christ\u2019s love, but for fear of scorn or ridicule, choose not to take that leap.\u00a0 Jesus knew that those that followed Him would run into many forms of persecution, and made it very clear that while sharing His message would likely lead to conflict, the eternal treasure we receive for remaining committed far outweighs our trials here.\u00a0 Have you shared the love of Christ today?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBlessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.\u00a0Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.\u201d \u2013 Matthew 5:11-12 (ESV) Many times each day we\u2019re in positions where we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2088],"tags":[2281,3194,2287,2284,1180,2187,2285,2283,2282,2286,2288],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-beatitudes","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-eternal-treasure","tag-following-christ","tag-gospel-of-matthew","tag-love-of-christ","tag-persecution","tag-ridicule","tag-scorn","tag-sharing-christs-message","tag-treasures-in-heaven"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-rK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}