{"id":1929,"date":"2012-01-19T13:38:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T17:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2012-01-19T13:38:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T17:38:30","slug":"a-common-misconception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1929","title":{"rendered":"A Common Misconception"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cDear friends, don\u2019t be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, be very glad\u2014for these trials make you partners with Christ in his suffering, so that you will have the wonderful joy of seeing his glory when it is revealed to all the world.\u201d \u2013 1 Peter 4:12-13 (NLT)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>When people first come to Christ, it\u2019s a common misconception that their lives will somehow become easier, or that at least their fears, anxieties and struggles would dissipate to some extent.\u00a0 In effect however, that\u2019s rarely the case.\u00a0 With that Blessed renewal of our spirit, in some respects our lives can actually become more complicated as we strive to follow in Jesus\u2019 footsteps.\u00a0 The important thing to remember however is that trials in His name are in fact Blessings unto themselves; drawing us closer to His path, and bringing joy in the knowledge that He shares our struggles with us.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDear friends, don\u2019t be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you. Instead, be very glad\u2014for these trials make you partners with Christ in his suffering, so that you will have the wonderful joy of seeing his glory when it is revealed to all the world.\u201d [&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":[2509,961,2602,2604,321,2475,2601,3194,211,269,2603,2605,2606,95,2242],"class_list":["post-1929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-1-peter","tag-anxieties","tag-blessed-renewal","tag-blessings-unto-themselves","tag-christ","tag-christ-jesus","tag-common-misconception","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-fears","tag-jesus","tag-jesus-footsteps","tag-jesus-path","tag-shares-our-struggles","tag-spirit","tag-struggles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-v7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929","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=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions\/1931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}