{"id":4710,"date":"2018-04-24T19:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T23:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/?p=4710"},"modified":"2018-04-24T11:44:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T15:44:18","slug":"blessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2018\/04\/24\/blessed\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before we are blessed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+5%3A2-12&amp;version=ESV\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: \u201cBlessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. \u201cBlessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. \u201cBlessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. \u201cBlessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. \u201cBlessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. \u201cBlessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. \u201cBlessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. \u201cBlessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness&#8217; sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. \u201cBlessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.<br \/>\n<em>Matthew 5:2-12 (ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We are blessed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm+1%3A1-3&amp;version=ESV\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-13943\" class=\"text Ps-1-3\">He is like\u00a0a tree<\/span><span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Ps-1-3\">planted by\u00a0streams of water\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"text Ps-1-3\">that yields its fruit in its season,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"text Ps-1-3\">and its\u00a0leaf does not wither.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"text Ps-1-3\">In all that he does, he prospers.<\/span><br \/>\n<em>Psalm 1:1-3<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before we are blessed here: And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: \u201cBlessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. \u201cBlessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. \u201cBlessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. \u201cBlessed are those who hunger and thirst for&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2018\/04\/24\/blessed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[227,228],"class_list":["post-4710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study","tag-beatitudes","tag-blessed"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1MnZf-blessed","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4711,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710\/revisions\/4711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}