{"id":1415,"date":"2009-01-17T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2009-01-17T08:07:27","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T16:07:27","slug":"my-ways-my-afflictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/my-ways-my-afflictions\/","title":{"rendered":"My Ways, My Afflictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to post this yesterday morning. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p><font color=red><b>&#8220;I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies&#8221;<\/b><\/font> (Psalm 119:59).<\/p>\n<p>We all need to periodically evaluate our ways. Daily, I suppose. May the result of such self-analysis cause me to turn back to God&#8217;s ways or to reaffirm myself in those ways.<\/p>\n<p><font color=red><b>&#8220;Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word&#8221;<\/b><\/font> (Psalm 119:67).<\/p>\n<p><font color=red><b>&#8220;It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes&#8221;<\/b><\/font> (Psalm 119:71).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good for me&#8221;? Well, it&#8217;s a matter of perspective, no? If affliction brings me into compliance with God&#8217;s Word, then it&#8217;s a good thing. Right?<\/p>\n<p><font color=red><b>&#8220;The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver&#8221;<\/b><\/font> (Psalm 119:72).<\/p>\n<p>What a great verse to come across when all kinds of things financial and economic are staggering and collapsing all around us! (Now if that girl who is auctioning off her &#8220;virtue&#8221; would grab ahold of that verse!)<\/p>\n<p>Well, what say you?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to post this yesterday morning. \ud83d\ude41 &#8220;I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies&#8221; (Psalm 119:59). We all need to periodically evaluate our ways. Daily, I suppose. May the result of such self-analysis cause me to turn back to God&#8217;s ways or to reaffirm myself in those ways. &#8230; <a title=\"My Ways, My Afflictions\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/my-ways-my-afflictions\/\" aria-label=\"More on My Ways, My Afflictions\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[624,605],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-lessons-for-living","tag-economy","tag-finances"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-mP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}