{"id":351804,"date":"2026-07-01T07:08:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/?p=351804"},"modified":"2026-07-02T10:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T14:15:32","slug":"the-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/post\/the-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"The Proud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #f2f8fc; padding: 2em; border-left: 5px solid #ccc; margin: 1em 0;\"><p>The wicked in his proud countenance does not seek God; God is in none of his thoughts. (Psalm 10:4)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe body language of the haughty and proud person already reveals their arrogance; they need no one nor God, because such people are oppressed and hateful towards themselves and everyone around them.<\/p>\n<p>God, for them, is very distant; however, He sees the countenance of this troubled and fallen one, as He saw Cain&#8217;s when he sinned. Such people do not know that the Almighty sees, suffers, and desires to be with all who are suffering. However, He waits to be invoked by these sufferers so that He may then manifest His power, saving them and giving them His Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The wicked in his proud countenance does not seek God; God is in none of his thoughts. (Psalm 10:4) &nbsp; The body language of the haughty and proud person already reveals their arrogance; they need no one nor God, because such people are oppressed and hateful towards themselves and everyone around them. God, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":351807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6248,377],"tags":[],"site":[],"class_list":["post-351804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ester-bezerra","category-women"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351806,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351804\/revisions\/351806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351804"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=351804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}