{"id":554,"date":"2021-01-20T12:44:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T12:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.18\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=554"},"modified":"2021-05-11T15:25:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T14:25:49","slug":"the-kite-the-falcon-and-the-buzzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"The kite, the falcon and the buzzard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>How can we overcome sin and live a victorious life?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sometimes we can learn lessons from the natural world. Last year I made an observation from nature which made me think about my spiritual walk with the Lord. It was a warm summer\u2019s day and I was sitting in the wild scrubby grass of a hilltop. A sudden movement startled me. A large bird of prey flew up out of the grass just a few feet away from me. It flapped its mighty wings once, twice, then soared effortlessly &#8211; round and round, upwards on the warm air current.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:more --><\/p>\n<div class=\"swpm-more-tag-not-logged-in swpm-margin-top-10\">You need to login to view the rest of the content. Please <a class=\"swpm-login-link\" href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=733&swpm_redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fswordmagazine.net%2Findex.php\">Login<\/a>. Not a Member? <a href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=731\">Join Us<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can we overcome sin and live a victorious life? Sometimes we can learn lessons from the natural world. Last year I made an observation [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68,29],"tags":[46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}