{"id":17214,"date":"2021-11-10T16:32:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T21:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=17214"},"modified":"2021-11-10T16:32:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T21:32:43","slug":"keep-chipping-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2021\/11\/keep-chipping-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Chipping Away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I find it interesting how you can understand a theological premise and totally accept it, and yet you read a phrase that brings it from the abstract to the concrete for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This morning I was reading Scott Hahn\u2019s commentary on Romans chapter 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut in Paul\u2019s view, suffering is God\u2019s way of sculpting us into the image of his Son.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the following story of Michelangelo being congratulated at the unveiling of his immortal statue of David has no historical basis, it gets across this idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHow could you have achieved a masterpiece like this from a crude slab of marble?\u201d a fan is supposed to have asked him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was easy,\u201d Michelangelo is said to have said. \u201cAll I did was chip away everything that didn\u2019t look like David.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus most days I feel more like a \u201ccrude slab of marble,\u201d than being sculpted into an image of Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find it interesting how you can understand a theological premise and totally accept it, and yet you read a phrase that brings it from the abstract to the concrete&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prayer","category-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17216,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17214\/revisions\/17216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}