{"id":12432,"date":"2020-02-14T03:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=12432"},"modified":"2020-02-14T03:22:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T09:22:22","slug":"loving-difficult-people-ephesians-51-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=12432","title":{"rendered":"Loving Difficult People Ephesians 5:1-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&rsquo;s be honest, some people are hard to love. Unfortunately, from the stories I hear, it is often a spouse. I recently had a wife tell me that being in bed with her husband was like being in bed with sandpaper. Why would ANYONE want to be close to a person like sandpaper! Your difficult person may not be a spouse; he could be an extended family member or even someone in your church who just &ldquo;rubs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2020\/02\/14\/loving-difficult-people-ephesians-51-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people are like sandpaper to us. They are just hard to be around, and unfortunately, sometimes it is a husband or wife. Scripture is very relevant and gives an amazing model to follow as well as deep motivations for loving the person who has deeply offended us or who rubs us the wrong way. Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[279],"tags":[1040,699,717,1378,65,89,897,1011,1761,449,1762],"class_list":["post-12432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-bitterness","tag-christ-likeness","tag-conflict","tag-conflict-resolution","tag-forgiveness","tag-love","tag-marriage-family","tag-marriage-counseling","tag-reconciliation","tag-relationships","tag-resentment","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12434,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12432\/revisions\/12434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}