{"id":136,"date":"2006-02-15T23:37:17","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T23:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=136"},"modified":"2006-02-15T23:37:17","modified_gmt":"2006-02-15T23:37:17","slug":"lost-&-tribulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Lost &#038; Tribulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The english has a saying &quot;Preferring lost to unjust gain&quot; &#23425;&#21487;&#21507;&#20111;&#65292;&#19981;&#36138;&#20415;&#23452;.<\/p>\n<p>From the Biblical examples, we, learning to submit to God, must know that suferring lost is harder to learn than bearing tribulation. In chinese, &#21507;&#20111;, has a much deeper meaning than the english word &quot;lost&quot;. For this kind of lost is a lost usually caused by one person against another. This kind of lost is usually unexpected. Literally translated being &quot;to eat deficiency&quot;. To eat, is worse than suffer.<\/p>\n<p>As Dr. Stephen Tong once put &quot;&#21507;&#20111;&#27604;&#21463;&#33510;&#26356;&#38590;&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>To server God, I must be willing in this, even so.<\/p>\n<p>My God, My God, you are my molder. Mold me what tools you like. Sanctify me, mold me. Whatever you please. Use me for however long, I am willing; use me for a few seconds, I am also willing. But please use me, my Lord.<\/p>\n<p>Amen.<\/p>\n<p>[@more@]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The english has a saying &quot;Preferring lost to unjust gain&quot; &#23425;&#21487;&#21507;&#20111;&#65292;&#19981;&#36138;&#20415;&#23452;. From the Biblical examples, we, learning to submit to God, must know that suferring lost is harder to learn than bearing tribulation. In chinese, &#21507;&#20111;, has a much deeper &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=136\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}