{"id":1067,"date":"2023-03-25T22:58:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T22:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2023-03-25T22:58:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T22:58:45","slug":"stitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1067","title":{"rendered":"\u201cStitches\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He had Jesus flogged,\u00a0and handed him over to be crucified.\u201d Mark 15:15<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We don\u2019t really know how many lashes Jesus endured, prior to being crucified. It had to have been brutal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the last few months, I\u2019ve had three separate procedures done on my back to remove basal-cell carcinomas. The doctor numbed the area, extracted the growth, stitched me up and sent me home. Each time there was a follow-up visit to remove the stitches. There was some discomfort, but it didn\u2019t last very long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I couldn\u2019t help but think about Jesus and the pain He suffered at the hands of the Roman soldiers. Back then, criminals were usually given 39 lashes and most did not live to talk about it. Jesus survived that beating and carried His own cross to His crucifixion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of us have seasons that are brutal and yet Jesus shows up to carry the heavy end of our cross. I\u2019m crying right now, which makes it difficult to type this \u201cChallenge\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have I allowed Jesus to tend to my wounds? Have I thanked Him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cWanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He had Jesus flogged,\u00a0and handed him over to be crucified.\u201d Mark 15:15 Applying God\u2019s Word We don\u2019t really know how many lashes Jesus endured, prior to being &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1067\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}