{"id":19,"date":"2005-12-19T23:55:08","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T04:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2017-04-17T22:09:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T02:09:40","slug":"19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/19\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaping Upward","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-images\/Jump.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN <\/strong>I&#8217;ve been free for a time from trials and temptations, I admit I&#8217;ve thought this was a sign of growing in holiness&#8230; at last, walking in the strides of Christ!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Until the Father gently lowered my feet to the ground of <em>tribulation<\/em>. And again I realized that, on my own, I merely take baby steps, stumbling and losing my balance.<\/p>\n<p>God doesn&#8217;t set me down because He no longer loves me, nor to abandon me. Rather, so I recognize that the greatest strides in the spiritual life are made, not leaping forward, but <em>upward<\/em>, back into His arms.  <\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; WHEN I&#8217;ve been free for a time from trials and temptations, I admit I&#8217;ve thought this was a sign of growing in holiness&#8230; at last, walking in the strides of Christ! &#8230;Until the Father gently lowered my feet to the ground of tribulation. 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