{"id":6196,"date":"2021-01-08T01:53:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6196"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:04","slug":"here-is-a-_________-fill-in-the-blank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6196","title":{"rendered":"HERE IS A _________ (FILL-IN-THE-BLANK)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<b>As Nathanael approaches Him, Jesus sums up his character with these words: &#8220;Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is nothing false.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>I keep thinking about this and I have to wonder: If I had the chance to meet Jesus in the flesh but part of the deal was that He would sum up my character in a single sentence, would I do it?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Would you?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Remember, this is the One who knows you inside and out. He knows your heart and He knows all the hidden things.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Does your gut say that His pronouncement would be complimentary?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Like &#8220;without guile&#8221; or &#8220;full of wisdom&#8221; or &#8220;unconditionally loving&#8221; or &#8220;living in great faith&#8221;?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Or would it be critical?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Like &#8220;judgmental&#8221; or &#8220;angry&#8221; or &#8220;full of fear&#8221;?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>These questions are worth at least a few minutes of reflection, aren&#8217;t they?<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0As Nathanael approaches Him, Jesus sums up his character with these words: &#8220;Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is nothing false.&#8221; I keep thinking about this and I have to wonder: If I had the chance to meet Jesus in the flesh but part of the deal was that He would sum up [&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-6196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196","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=6196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6197,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196\/revisions\/6197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}