Success in the Christian life can best be summarized with one word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CONTENTMENT<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– – –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content.”—–His Book (Paul wrote that, after dozens of close encounters with life-threatening trouble, stoned, left for dead, shipwrecked, etc.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– – –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Contentment is a far cry from Comfortable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.”—–also from His Book<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Success in the Christian life can best be summarized with one word. CONTENTMENT – – – “I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content.”—–His Book (Paul wrote that, after dozens of close encounters with life-threatening trouble, stoned, left for dead, shipwrecked, etc.) – – – Contentment is a far cry from Comfortable. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052"}],"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=5052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5054,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions\/5054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}