{"id":6520,"date":"2024-05-11T02:54:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T07:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6520"},"modified":"2024-05-11T02:56:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T07:56:28","slug":"humble-or-humiliated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6520","title":{"rendered":"HUMBLE OR HUMILIATED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A little over a year ago on this site, I wrote an article titled, \u201cHUMBLE YOURSELF . . .\u201d \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 AND HOW DO I DO THAT ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I encourage you to look it up and be blessed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article will be a simple, condensed version of the same thought, same challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So often the human experience of being humbled means being humiliated.<br>But there is a higher plane in living for Jesus when we ask the Lord to lift us up.<br>How ?<br>Humble ourselves first.<br>Only then can He lift us.<br>And, He gets all the credit, all the glory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple quotes from a year ago:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As long as we worry, we\u2019re trying to take care of some things that God might not.&#8221;<br>&#8220;Casting our cares on Him must be the way to humble ourselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please read the whole article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little over a year ago on this site, I wrote an article titled, \u201cHUMBLE YOURSELF . . .\u201d \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 AND HOW DO I DO THAT ? I encourage you to look it up and be blessed. This article will be a simple, condensed version of the same thought, same challenge. So often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6520"}],"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=6520"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6524,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6520\/revisions\/6524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}