{"id":1678,"date":"2011-11-11T04:47:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T10:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2011-11-10T08:17:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T14:17:48","slug":"pride-in-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/11\/pride-in-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride in Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nica&#8217;s seem to need to confess. That&#8217;s certainly good for the soul and very Biblical. The scripture says &#8220;Confess your sins one to another and pray for one another that you may be healed.&#8221; (James 5:16) But it may also be the strong Catholic tradition in the country that causes them to confess so easily. Who knows?<\/p>\n<p>One lady is telling me of how she has become proud and arrogant. Its almost inconceivable to me. Her shelter is a tin shack inferior to anything my farm animals live in. She makes $100 a month. She has maybe two changes of clothes, and yet she struggles with pride.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it.&#8221; Jeremiah 17:9<\/p>\n<p>Its interesting, incomprehensible, and instructive to me, that someone who lives so humbly could struggle with the sin of pride.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nica&#8217;s seem to need to confess. That&#8217;s certainly good for the soul and very Biblical. The scripture says &#8220;Confess your sins one to another and pray for one another that you may be healed.&#8221; (James 5:16) But it may also be the strong Catholic tradition in the country that causes them to confess so easily. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1683,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/1683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}