{"id":1192,"date":"2012-09-13T11:25:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T15:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2013-06-26T11:17:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:17:27","slug":"embracing-every-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=1192","title":{"rendered":"Embracing Every Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>&#8220;Those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/span> (Romans 8:29a)<\/p>\n<p>Several great principles emerge from this, speaking volumes into the details of my life:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The only goal that matters <em>ultimately<\/em> is Christlikeness.<\/span> (2 Cor. 3:18; Eph. 4:24)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">When Christlikeness is my ultimate goal I move with God, in the sweep of His power and with the confidence of eventually arriving at His designed end.<\/span> (Phil. 3:21; 1 John 3:2)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">If Christlikeness is my ultimate goal, then even the deepest hole and darkest night can become my friend.<\/span> (Rom. 8:18; 2 Cor. 4:16-17)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son &#8230;&#8221; (Romans 8:29a) Several great principles emerge from this, speaking volumes into the details of my life: The only goal that matters ultimately is Christlikeness. (2 Cor. 3:18; Eph. 4:24) When Christlikeness is my ultimate goal I move with God, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35,9,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-persecution","category-romans","category-suffering","post-preview"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYGxX-je","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1566,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}