{"id":2698,"date":"2015-03-10T11:40:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T16:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2015-03-10T11:42:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T16:42:44","slug":"punishment-persecution-sacrifice-reprint-from-12-29-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2698","title":{"rendered":"PUNISHMENT&#8212;PERSECUTION&#8212;SACRIFICE (reprint from 12-29-12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do these three experiences have in common?<\/p>\n<p>PUNISHMENT<\/p>\n<p>PERSECUTION<\/p>\n<p>SACRIFICE<\/p>\n<p>Brace yourself, especially for the application.<\/p>\n<p>All three involve suffering.<\/p>\n<p>Punishment\u2014you suffer, and it\u2019s your fault.<\/p>\n<p>Persecution\u2014you suffer, and it\u2019s not your fault.<\/p>\n<p>Sacrifice\u2014you suffer, and it\u2019s your choice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Application\u2014using the above definition, ask yourself, \u201cWhen was the last time I sacrificed for anything, or for anyone?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do these three experiences have in common? PUNISHMENT PERSECUTION SACRIFICE Brace yourself, especially for the application. All three involve suffering. Punishment\u2014you suffer, and it\u2019s your fault. Persecution\u2014you suffer, and it\u2019s not your fault. Sacrifice\u2014you suffer, and it\u2019s your choice. &nbsp; Application\u2014using the above definition, ask yourself, \u201cWhen was the last time I sacrificed for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-financial","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}