{"id":1592,"date":"2010-06-24T10:49:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T14:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shieldsgroup.com\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2010-06-24T10:49:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T14:49:11","slug":"lacking-spiritual-depth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/24\/lacking-spiritual-depth\/","title":{"rendered":"Lacking Spiritual Depth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I was thinking of the religious leadership of Jesus&#8217; day <\/strong>&#8212; how incredibly scholarly they were and how empty they were spiritually. Then someone gave me a great quote that fit them well:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>They could dig down deeper and come up drier than anyone else.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There, except for the grace of God, go I.<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a constant challenge for us to maintain a spiritual depth that is rooted in God&#8217;s presence in our life. Such does not come from mere study, but from deep and meaningful fellowship with God through worship and prayer.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking of the religious leadership of Jesus&#8217; day &#8212; how incredibly scholarly they were and how empty they were spiritually. Then someone gave me a great quote that fit them well: They could dig down deeper and come &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/24\/lacking-spiritual-depth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,398,487],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-life","tag-quotes","tag-religion","tag-spirituality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvmV-pG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}