{"id":14243,"date":"2011-01-26T08:23:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T13:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=14243"},"modified":"2011-01-26T08:23:36","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T13:23:36","slug":"james-410-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/01\/26\/james-410-humility\/","title":{"rendered":"James 4:10 &#8212; Humility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NIV&amp;search=James+4:10\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>James 4:10<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>From DSC:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Since my college days, I&#8217;ve been trying to be more aware of my blind spots. One of those blind spots back then for me (among many&#8230;and I&#8217;m still trying to identify my blind spots) was <strong>pride<\/strong>. These days, I have to always be on the lookout for pride &#8212; is it trying to fly under the radar again on me? Am I not seeing it in myself? Is what I&#8217;m doing helpful to someone else? What are my motives?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I say this because I remember the times when the LORD got a hold of me and had to humble me big time. I recall some days in college when it took a Big 10 Championship to make me happy&#8230;and then by the end of my senior yea<\/span>r, a blooming flower could lift me up.\u00a0 The humbling process that the LORD takes us through can be very painful. I try to avoid it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James 4:10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up. . From DSC: Since my college days, I&#8217;ve been trying to be more aware of my blind spots. One of those blind spots back then for me (among many&#8230;and I&#8217;m still trying to identify my blind spots) was pride. These days, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,248],"tags":[772,696],"class_list":["post-14243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-relationships","tag-faith-wisdom","tag-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14246,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243\/revisions\/14246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}