{"id":2024,"date":"2021-01-09T10:56:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T10:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2021-01-09T11:17:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T11:17:16","slug":"glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/01\/09\/glory\/","title":{"rendered":"Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"606\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSC_1703-1024x606.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSC_1703-1024x606.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSC_1703-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSC_1703-768x455.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSC_1703-1536x909.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSC_1703.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>A frosty start to the day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a look at Psalm 29 in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=60\" target=\"_blank\">tomorrow&#8217;s Lectionary<\/a>. Does that glory language discourage us from being vain or narcissistic or pompous or thuggish? Surely it must because glory belongs to God, not to any of us human race. But experience makes me wonder if that&#8217;s true, because many people who claim to serve God are quite fond of their own glorification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I too am always cheered up when someone has seen something I tweeted. Maybe the platform reduces us to being &#8216;likes&#8217; engines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>God give me a realistic idea<br>of my own worth,<br>not <strong>above<\/strong> the rest of humanity<\/em>,<br><em>but <strong>because <\/strong>I am human,<br>for we are all made and loved<br>by you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please pray for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-55601909\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Indonesia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have a look at Psalm 29 in tomorrow&#8217;s Lectionary. Does that glory language discourage us from being vain or narcissistic or pompous or thuggish? Surely it must because glory belongs to God, not to any of us human race. But experience makes me wonder if that&#8217;s true, because many people who claim to serve God &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/01\/09\/glory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Glory&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2029,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions\/2029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}