{"id":53,"date":"2013-01-14T13:32:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T18:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/?p=53"},"modified":"2013-01-14T13:32:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T18:32:53","slug":"help-i-have-weak-knees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/2013\/01\/14\/help-i-have-weak-knees\/","title":{"rendered":"Help! I have weak knees&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What should I do when my knees are weak?\u00a0 Recently, I read in the Bible, <em>\u201c&#8230;strengthen your&#8230;weak knees.\u201d <\/em>(Heb. 12:12) and it made an impression more than any other time I\u2019ve read that sentence!\u00a0 Since I had knee surgery and am going through the ensuing rehabilitation, I have experienced one kind of \u201cweak knee\u2019.\u00a0 The word-picture drawn for us in Hebrews 12 is of one who is weary from walking a long distance \u2013 \u201cfeeble arms, weak knees, limping feet\u201d.\u00a0 That\u2019s the picture of us at times as we follow Jesus.\u00a0 Sometimes He leads us through difficult terrain; sometimes our life of following Him is challenging &#8211;\u00a0 even rugged!\u00a0\u00a0It may mean taking the Gospel to the ends of the earth!\u00a0 We are told to not give up but to help one another in pursuing all that Jesus wants.\u00a0 My &#8220;weak knee&#8221; experience has required the help of a surgeon, follow-up doctors, and a physical therapist.\u00a0 What kinds of help can we give to people with spiritually weak knees?\u00a0 We can turn our attention to Jesus and encourage others with what we see&#8230;\u00a0 <em>\u201c&#8230;let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.\u00a0 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus&#8230;\u201d<\/em> (Heb. 12:1b-2a, NIV)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What should I do when my knees are weak?\u00a0 Recently, I read in the Bible, \u201c&#8230;strengthen your&#8230;weak knees.\u201d (Heb. 12:12) and it made an impression more than any other time I\u2019ve read that sentence!\u00a0 Since I had knee surgery and am going through the ensuing rehabilitation, I have experienced one kind of \u201cweak knee\u2019.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ministry","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}