{"id":1350,"date":"2012-02-17T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2012-02-24T09:24:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T13:24:59","slug":"psalm-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1350","title":{"rendered":"(Psalm 95) Not an empty word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For forty years I was grieved with that generation, and said, &#8220;It is a people who go astray in their hearts, and they do not know My ways.&#8221;\u00a0So I swore in My wrath, &#8220;They shall not enter My rest.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>God is a God of love.\u00a0 But the word &#8216;love&#8217; can connote weakness, a sort of easy-going disposition that results from a lack of strongly-held convictions.<\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s love is not <em>that<\/em> kind of love.\u00a0 He is compassionate, but He is certainly not without convictions.\u00a0 Wrath is not an empty word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For forty years I was grieved with that generation, and said, &#8220;It is a people who go astray in their hearts, and they do not know My ways.&#8221;\u00a0So I swore in My wrath, &#8220;They shall not enter My rest.\u201d God is a God of love.\u00a0 But the word &#8216;love&#8217; can connote weakness, a sort of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1350\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Psalm 95) Not an empty word&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}