{"id":1422,"date":"2015-04-08T18:16:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T22:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2015-04-11T12:56:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T17:26:02","slug":"taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/04-08-2015\/taste\/","title":{"rendered":"Taste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember a story I read in the sixth grade about two high school wrestlers. The plot is lost to me, but the one scene I remember is the two of them in a restaurant. They had to watch their weight, so when one of them wanted a milkshake, he would slosh it around in his mouth to get the taste, then spit it out.<\/p>\n<p>We do the same when it comes to God. We get a taste of His goodness, but then reject it because of the inconvenience we will suffer. We know that God will expect us to do His will, and we don&#8217;t want that &#8220;burden.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, we will talk about how good He is only to disavow Him in our daily lives. I am not immune to this problem, I am guilty of doing this more times than I want to admit. When we do that, what does it say about our beliefs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember a story I read in the sixth grade about two high school wrestlers. The plot is lost to me, but the one scene I remember is the two of them in a restaurant. They had to watch their weight, so when one of them wanted a milkshake, he would slosh it around in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","category-tidbit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}