{"id":647,"date":"2008-09-26T05:17:57","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T12:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=647"},"modified":"2008-09-26T05:17:57","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T12:17:57","slug":"better-much-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2008\/better-much-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Better. Much Better."},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=150 border=0 cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 bgcolor=\"#003300\" align=right align=texttop>\n<tr>\n<td><b><font color=\"#339933\">Reading:<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">Proverbs 16:12-22<\/font><br \/>\n<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Read this and be warned, Mark:<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (18).<\/p>\n<p>I knew that then. I know that now.<\/p>\n<p>So why is pride still such a temptation?!<\/p>\n<p>Knowing isn&#8217;t enough.<\/p>\n<p>I need the Lord to continually renew a right spirit within me.<\/p>\n<p>And I need to purposefully do those things which put pride and self to death.<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (19).<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/wisdomthangold-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/wisdomthangold-s.jpg\" alt=\"[How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! (Proverbs 16:16)]\" title=\"How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! (Proverbs 16:16)\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>from Proverbs 16:16<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>A little bit more from Proverbs 16:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/cgi-bin\/webbbs\/lift\/lift.cgi?read=8700\"><font color=green>Find Good; Be Happy<\/font><\/a><\/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>Reading: Proverbs 16:12-22 Read this and be warned, Mark: &#8220;Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall&#8221; (18). I knew that then. I know that now. So why is pride still such a temptation?! Knowing isn&#8217;t enough. I need the Lord to continually renew a right spirit within me. And I need [&hellip;]<!-- 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":[2],"tags":[30],"class_list":{"0":"post-647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-proverbs","7":"tag-seek-wisdom","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry","10":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-ar","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","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=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}