{"id":4388,"date":"2025-12-01T09:42:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/?p=4388"},"modified":"2025-12-01T09:55:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:55:38","slug":"les-deux-vieillards-du-11-novembre-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/les-deux-vieillards-du-11-novembre-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GENTLE AND LOWLY (second part)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <strong>The Weekly Update<\/strong> \u2013 Dec 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some more extracts from <em>\u2018Gentle and Lowly\u2019 \u2013 The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers\u2019,&nbsp;<\/em>a great book by Dane Ortlund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201c Christ gets more joy and comfort than we do when we come to him for help and mercy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201c The reason that Jesus is in such close solidarity with us is that the difficult path we are on is not unique to us. He has journeyed on it himself. It is not only that Jesus can relieve us from our troubles, like a doctor prescribing medicine; it is also that , before any relief comes, he is with us in our troubles, like a doctor who has endured the same disease.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201c He knows what it is to be thirsty, hungry, despised, rejected, scorned, shamed, embarrassed, abandoned, misunderstood\u2026He know what it is to be lonely. His friends abandoned him, when he needed them most; had he lived today, every last Twitter follower and Facebook friend would have un-friended him when he turned thirty-three \u2013 he who will never un-friend-us.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <strong>The Weekly Update<\/strong> \u2013 Dec 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4392,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions\/4392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}