{"id":5185,"date":"2024-04-19T06:05:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/?p=5185"},"modified":"2024-04-19T06:05:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:05:26","slug":"perseverance-through-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/2024\/04\/19\/perseverance-through-suffering\/","title":{"rendered":"Perseverance through suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: lucida sans unicode, lucida grande, sans-serif;\"><strong>\u201cWe are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.\u201d (2 Corinthians 4:8-9\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Devotion:\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nAs we age at a certain point, we begin to see gradual greater decay in the external world. Our forefathers mostly used jars of clay, affordable but brittle. The Jars of clay indicate our perishing mortal bodies. The image of Jesus Christ we represent is eternal. The treasure inside helps us deal with the journey outside. Pressure on an empty jar of clay will shatter. But if a jar is filled with a powerful treasure, it cannot break. We may feel perplexed, persecuted, struck down by the world. Have faith in him and his timing. God will never ever forsake us in any circumstances as long as we surrender ourselves completely to the Lord Almighty. To apprehend tension being lived out, have a look at Jesus\u2019 glorious ministry. Jesus&#8217; life we carry is one of healing, righteousness and aligning with God. This suffering is the vehicle God uses to actually transform us into who we are meant to be to fulfill the Father\u2019s will.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Prayer<\/strong><br \/>\nFather, Guide us to spread your Gospel and build your kingdom and to prepare ourselves for your second coming. Amen<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thought for the Day<\/strong><br \/>\nGod consoles us not to make us comfortable, but so that we may become comforters &#8211; John Henry Jewett<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mrs. Anu Vanmelil\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Salem MTC, NY<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.\u201d (2 Corinthians 4:8-9\u00a0 Devotion:\u00a0 As we&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reflections"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/360_F_578661044_P2Ya3QrfFpGwXHLNfHZo2uZJPu63VmSM.jpg?fit=540%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5187,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185\/revisions\/5187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}