{"id":2037,"date":"2010-02-18T13:38:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T18:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2010-02-18T13:38:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T18:38:43","slug":"path-to-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/path-to-understanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Path to understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><sup>Matthew 13:12\u00a0<\/sup>Whoever has [understanding] will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.\u00a0<sup>13<\/sup><strong>This is why I speak to them in parables:\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;Though seeing, they do not see;\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0though hearing, they do not hear or understand.\u00a0<sup>14<\/sup>In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0&#8221; &#8216;You will be ever hearing but never understanding;\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<sup>15<\/sup>For this people&#8217;s heart has become calloused;\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0they hardly hear with their ears,\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and they have closed their eyes.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Otherwise they might see with their eyes,\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hear with their ears,\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0understand with their hearts\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and turn, and I would heal them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission Statement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[1751,41,2155,2478,3006,3030,3186,3189,74,91],"class_list":["post-2037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality","tag-idols","tag-jesus","tag-matthew-1312-15","tag-parables","tag-seek-and-find","tag-senses","tag-spiritual-blindness","tag-spiritual-deadness","tag-spiritual-growth","tag-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}