{"id":4747,"date":"2018-06-09T08:42:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T12:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2018\/06\/09\/for-what-do-you-hunger-and-thirst\/"},"modified":"2018-06-09T08:42:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T12:42:54","slug":"for-what-do-you-hunger-and-thirst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2018\/06\/09\/for-what-do-you-hunger-and-thirst\/","title":{"rendered":"For what do you hunger and thirst?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.&#8221; <i>Matthew 5:6<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If this verse is to you one of the most blessed statements of the whole of Scripture you can be quite certain you are a Christian; if it is not, then you had better examine the foundations again.&#8221; <i>D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Jesus said to them, \u201cI am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.&#8221; <i>John 6:35<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.&#8221; Matthew 5:6 &#8220;If this verse is to you one of the most blessed statements of the whole of Scripture you can be quite certain you are a Christian; if it is not, then you had better examine the foundations again.&#8221; D.&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2018\/06\/09\/for-what-do-you-hunger-and-thirst\/\" 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":[230],"tags":[227],"class_list":["post-4747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-being-a-christian","tag-beatitudes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MnZf-1ez","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747","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=4747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}