{"id":8345,"date":"2013-05-28T20:15:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T20:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=8345"},"modified":"2013-05-28T20:15:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T20:15:02","slug":"benched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=8345","title":{"rendered":"Benched&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/AAAA1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8345]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-Blog Post Image wp-image-8347\" title=\"AAAA\" src=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/AAAA1-580x394.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/AAAA1-580x394.jpg 580w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/AAAA1-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/AAAA1-270x183.jpg 270w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/AAAA1-960x653.jpg 960w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/AAAA1-600x408.jpg 600w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/AAAA1-880x598.jpg 880w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/AAAA1-350x238.jpg 350w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/AAAA1-400x272.jpg 400w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/AAAA1-370x251.jpg 370w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/AAAA1-500x340.jpg 500w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/AAAA1-734x500.jpg 734w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/AAAA1.jpg 1791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can well remember when I was a high school football player and my biggest fear was messing up and being benched! \u00a0taken out of the game, not allowed to play, rep-leaced by someone else., \u00a0Seems like a pretty silly fear now, but it sure was a real concern back then. \u00a0Thankfully serving God is not the same,He knows we will fail, and he lets us play on. \u00a0Most of the toughest memories we have are about things that seemed like tremendous failures in our past, but a closer examination will almost always reveal that it was a &#8220;teaching moment&#8221;! \u00a0None of us wants to be uncomfortable, but sometimes being uncomfortable is part of the lesson.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I truly want to serve Him, and I know sometimes I don&#8217;t do it very well, but I know He loves me, forgives me , and gives me another chance. \u00a0What more could we ask!?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Blessings,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the pilgrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can well remember when I was a high school football player and my biggest fear was messing up and being benched! \u00a0taken out of the game, not allowed to play, rep-leaced by someone else., \u00a0Seems like a pretty silly fear now, but it sure was a real concern back then. \u00a0Thankfully serving God is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8349,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions\/8349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}