{"id":1475,"date":"2010-03-01T09:31:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T15:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2010-03-01T09:31:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T15:31:59","slug":"made-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2010\/made-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Made Low?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Be Single in Focus<\/h2>\n

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.<\/i><\/p>\n

James 1:8<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
Reading:<\/p>\n

James 1:1-11<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

This, I understand:<\/p>\n

“Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted”<\/span> (James 1:9).<\/p>\n

Makes sense to me.<\/p>\n

But this next piece?<\/p>\n

“But the rich, in that he is made low…”<\/span> (James 1:10).<\/p>\n

Help me out.<\/p>\n

Does it mean the wealthy person should rejoice when his wealth parts company with him and he is left poor?<\/p>\n

Then I have another question:<\/p>\n

May verse 10 be rightly applied also to someone who is rich in gifts (for example, social poise or public speaking or service opportunities or spiritual discernment)?<\/p>\n

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Be Single in Focus A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. James 1:8 Reading: James 1:1-11 This, I understand: “Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted” (James 1:9). Makes sense to me. But this next piece? “But the rich, in that he is made low…” (James 1:10). […]<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-james","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-nN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}