{"id":1810,"date":"2024-07-01T03:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:23","slug":"the-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=1810","title":{"rendered":"THE PATH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How often do you come across a verse in the Bible and you know you&#8217;ve read it before but this time around it strikes you as unusually profound or challenging or beautiful?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then you think, &#8220;How did I overlook this before?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a verse in Proverbs that I used to close my sermon this morning. It is a simple and beautiful image, especially when you consider that Jesus described Himself as &#8220;the Way&#8221;:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.<\/i> (4:18)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How often do you come across a verse in the Bible and you know you&#8217;ve read it before but this time around it strikes you as unusually profound or challenging or beautiful?\u00a0 And then you think, &#8220;How did I overlook this before?&#8221; Here&#8217;s a verse in Proverbs that I used to close my sermon this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}