{"id":580,"date":"2009-12-02T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=580"},"modified":"2013-06-19T15:52:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T19:52:53","slug":"beware-presumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"Beware Presumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/SxXgN-iteGI\/AAAAAAAAAjw\/aRpMWa1tJLc\/s1600-h\/pilgrims+progress.jpg\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410477058087024738\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 112px; cursor: hand; height: 160px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/SxXgN-iteGI\/AAAAAAAAAjw\/aRpMWa1tJLc\/s200\/pilgrims+progress.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Bunyan&#8217;s <em>Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress<\/em> is truly a treasure trove of practical and pastoral wisdom for the Christian life. I am reading it again to my boys, this time in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1433506998?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1433506998\">new edition edited by C. J. Lovik<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"zptrupnukydrygmvjvbg\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1433506998\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. Tonight we read the following portion which is really a good reminder:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;But as for footmen like you and me, let us never desire to meet with the enemy or presume ourselves able to do better when we hear about the struggles of others. When we hear of others who have been sorely tested, let&#8217;s not be deluded by thoughts of our own manhood, for those who do so are often the ones who have the worst time of it when they are tested.&#8221;\u009d (p. 182-83)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bunyan&#8217;s Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress is truly a treasure trove of practical and pastoral wisdom for the Christian life. I am reading it again to my boys, this time in the new edition edited by C. J. Lovik. Tonight we read the following portion which is really a good reminder: &#8220;But as for footmen like you and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=580\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Beware Presumption&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2941,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/2941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}