{"id":433,"date":"2011-04-08T14:59:48","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T18:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/?p=433"},"modified":"2011-04-08T14:59:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T18:59:48","slug":"things-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/2011\/04\/08\/things-above\/","title":{"rendered":"Things Above"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t believe it is a coincidence that I read Colossians 3:1-4 during my devotional reading yesterday. \u00a0It doesn&#8217;t really matter what I am going through, the command to continually seek the things above is always a challenge. \u00a0But seriously, Lord, do you expect me to be able to focus on things above, where Christ is seated at Your right hand when I am going through &#8220;stuff&#8221;? \u00a0We are living in chaos and trying to figure out what we are going to do with everything and I am supposed to be seeking things above? \u00a0I have to honestly say my mind has not been extremely focused on the eternal these past few days. \u00a0I believe it is time to meditate on the fact that I am dead and my life is hidden in Your Son and that through HIS life this time of sorting, packing and cleaning can produce eternal fruit to Your glory!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t believe it is a coincidence that I read Colossians 3:1-4 during my devotional reading yesterday. \u00a0It doesn&#8217;t really matter what I am going through, the command to continually seek the things above is always a challenge. \u00a0But seriously, Lord, do you expect me to be able to focus on things above, where Christ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-family","category-ministry","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}