{"id":158,"date":"2008-03-25T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lrtministry.org\/the-blessed-life\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T17:03:00","slug":"the-blessed-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/the-blessed-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Blessed&#8221; Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is always fun when you read and reread passages of scripture and something new catches your eye.  This happened to me recently when I was on a retreat.  I was rereading John 13, a passage about Jesus washing the disciples feet.  What caught my attention this time was the last verse of this section of scripture, John 13:7.  Here we have a statement from Jesus on how to be blessed. The answer seems quite simple yet complex.  We are to do what we know.  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">In The Message<\/span> it says &#8220;If you understand what I am telling you, act like it &#8211; and live a blessed life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So what did Jesus do?  He gave Himself for the sake of others.  In this passage He humbled Himself and washed the feet of His disciples.  A few chapters later we read about Jesus giving His life as payment for our sins.  But what about Peter&#8217;s reaction?<\/p>\n<p>More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is always fun when you read and reread passages of scripture and something new catches your eye. This happened to me recently when I was on a retreat. I was rereading John 13, a passage about Jesus washing the disciples feet. What caught my attention this time was the last verse of this section &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/the-blessed-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The &#8220;Blessed&#8221; Life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serving-others"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xZq6-2y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}