{"id":1732,"date":"2011-12-09T12:07:13","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T16:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2011-12-09T12:07:13","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T16:07:13","slug":"an-eternal-weight-of-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1732","title":{"rendered":"An Eternal Weight of Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cSo we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.\u00a0For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,\u00a0as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.\u201d \u2013 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>As another year will soon be behind us, it\u2019s only natural to ponder how our mortal shells have aged.\u00a0 However for those who are in Christ, instead of focusing on our \u201couter selves\u201d and their continuing decline, we can find joy in the knowledge that our spirits are in a state of constant renewal.\u00a0 The things of this world may be fleeting, but when we have a relationship with Jesus we\u2019re able to fix our sights on the eternal.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSo we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.\u00a0For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,\u00a0as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For [&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":[1444,2298,321,2300,3194,2299,966,2297,269,2296,1922,92,95],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-2-corinthians","tag-body","tag-christ","tag-constant-renewal","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-decline","tag-god","tag-inner-self","tag-jesus","tag-outer-self","tag-pauls-second-epistle-to-the-corinthians","tag-relationship","tag-spirit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-rW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","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=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}