{"id":1946,"date":"2014-01-19T07:16:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T15:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2014-01-19T07:16:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T15:16:03","slug":"pass-over-that-transgression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2014\/pass-over-that-transgression\/","title":{"rendered":"Pass Over That Transgression!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Insulted, demeaned, hurt, offended<\/strong> &#8212; friends happen. So do other people.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes they do it cheerfully and unwittingly. Other times they do it wrathfully and purposefully.<\/p>\n<p>I use <i>they<\/i>. I&#8217;m not deluded, OK? <i>We<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few minutes ago I read&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The discretion of a man deferreth his anger;<br \/>\nand it is his glory to pass over a transgression.<\/em><br \/>\nProverbs 19:11<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"wallpaper\"><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/glorytopassover-s.jpg\" title=\"Glory in passing over that offense and that hurt!\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/glorytopassover-b.jpg\" alt=\"Glory in passing over an offense\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Glory in passing over that offense and that hurt!<\/i><\/div>\n<p>I must do that. I must glory in that. It&#8217;s hard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#f6f6f6\">The one used the <i>l<\/i> four-letter word in assaulting my integrity. The other used the same word&#8230;and dumped salt into my poverty.<\/p>\n<p>What is the <strong>Christian response to offenses<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:-1em\">\n<li>Glory in passing over them.<\/li>\n<li>Forgive.<\/li>\n<li>Pray.<\/li>\n<li>Bless.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sometimes, though, the first response needs to be <strong>appealing to God for the right responses<\/strong>. Sometimes? <i>All the time!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Be sure to read another time I mentioned this verse&#8230;way back in 2005: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2005\/offenses\/\" title=\"Offenses | Mark Roth | Panting Hart\">Offenses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s something I wrote on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptists.org\/clp\/youth\/2-296.html\" title=\"Forgiveness | Mark Roth | Anabaptists\">forgiveness<\/a> way back in 1995.<\/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>And not grudgingly&#8230; Glory in it!<!-- 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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[64,99,31],"class_list":{"0":"post-1946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-proverbs","7":"tag-peace","8":"tag-relationships","9":"tag-way-of-righteousness","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-vo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","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=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}