{"id":49,"date":"2005-01-24T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-25T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=50"},"modified":"2005-01-24T21:52:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-25T03:52:00","slug":"suffering-and-knowing-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Suffering and knowing God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philippians 3:10 &#8211; &#8220;I want to <strong>know Christ<\/strong> and the power of his resurrection and <strong>the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings<\/strong>, becoming like him in his death,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, it is in suffering that we can better understand God&#8217;s heart.  How can we understand His heartache if we do not go through heartache ourselves?  When we are in those moments of emotional agony, do we catch a glimpse of the agony of the Father as He looks on this fallen world?  Is that what Paul means when he talks about &#8216;the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings&#8217;?  Can we identify more closely with Jesus having gone through painful experiences?  Is that the point of it all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippians 3:10 &#8211; &#8220;I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=49\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}