{"id":1325,"date":"2017-02-01T14:27:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T20:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2017-04-26T09:40:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:40:33","slug":"knowing-thyself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=1325","title":{"rendered":"Know thyself…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been back in the gym for\u00a0four\u00a0years. \u00a0I have lovingly come to call my time spent there\u00a0my worshipful workout<\/a>. \u00a0Today as I was climbing my never ending imaginary mountain I realized that my workout has become even more, He has helped me turn this time into a time of self reflection, of self knowledge and confession as He so gently reminds me of my mistakes,\u00a0failures and sprinkles in the few triumphs when I have truly let Him work through and in me.<\/p>\n

Over the past few years I have climbed about 2500 miles on the elliptical at the gym, but\u00a0the strides He has given me the grace\u00a0to take down the path of\u00a0knowing thyself are infinitely more meaningful.<\/p>\n

Sweet Lord, as I dig deeper into knowing myself\u00a0the demons within surround me<\/a>… You alone\u00a0are my refuge and I beg you to please let every sorrow filled tear that falls be full of pure and true contrition, and every joy filled tear that falls be full of pure and true praise and gratitude for You!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been back in the gym for\u00a0four\u00a0years. \u00a0I have lovingly come to call my time spent there\u00a0my worshipful workout. \u00a0Today as I was climbing my never ending imaginary mountain I realized that my workout has become even more, He … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,7,131,298,130,138,123,56],"tags":[1838,54,67,1836,1833,1841,1834,1843,1840,1835,96,92,729,1844,1503,1842,15,1227,1829,1828,1830,55,297,53,12,1832,51,10,519,1837,483,1814,23,1839,1034,229,1831,124,52,16,159],"ppma_author":[2854],"class_list":["post-1325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belief","category-blessings","category-faith","category-grace","category-gratitude","category-humility","category-love-2","category-prayer","category-suffering","tag-beg","tag-best","tag-christ","tag-contrition","tag-demon","tag-demon-inside","tag-demon-within","tag-demons-hide","tag-demons-inside","tag-demons-within","tag-forgiveness","tag-god","tag-gym","tag-hidden-demons","tag-holy-spirit","tag-inside","tag-jesus","tag-know","tag-know-thyself","tag-knowing","tag-knowing-thyself","tag-life","tag-lord","tag-my","tag-my-best-life","tag-myself","tag-our","tag-our-best-life","tag-pure","tag-remorse","tag-sad","tag-sadness","tag-sorrow","tag-sorrowful","tag-tear","tag-tears","tag-thyself","tag-true","tag-your","tag-your-best-life","tag-yourself"],"authors":[{"term_id":2854,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sbernadac","display_name":"Sarah Bernadac","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d6f6fd27725929c335efc2f3f617d947991447401cb02a573de4c068d7361377?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1348,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions\/1348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}