{"id":3641,"date":"2022-08-16T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3641"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:49","slug":"strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3641","title":{"rendered":"STRENGTH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I get older and the hearing starts to go and the eyes grow weak, I take great comfort in Paul&#8217;s words to the Corinthians:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify\">&#8220;Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.&#8221; (2 Cor. 4:16b)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify\">This makes physical aging more bearable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify\">It is possible to have both physical strength and spiritual strength throughout most of your life, but the physical strength has an expiration date.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify\">If I had to choose, I would much rather be strong spiritually than physically anyway.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I get older and the hearing starts to go and the eyes grow weak, I take great comfort in Paul&#8217;s words to the Corinthians: &#8220;Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.&#8221; (2 Cor. 4:16b) This makes physical aging more bearable.\u00a0 It is possible to [&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-3641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641","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=3641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3642,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions\/3642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}