{"id":144,"date":"2010-10-07T23:27:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T03:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=144"},"modified":"2010-10-08T08:26:06","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T12:26:06","slug":"what-kind-of-inner-strength-job-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"What kind of inner strength? (Job 23)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of inner strength must it have taken for Job to stand up against the withering attacks from those around him, and to maintain his confidence toward God.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have stayed on God&#8217;s paths; &#8230; I have not departed from his commands, but have treasured his words more than my daily food.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What commands was Job referring to? And which of God&#8217;s words did he so treasure? Perhaps he was referring to the ancient book of Enoch, the seventh from Adam. Perhaps in the past God had spoken audibly to Job.<\/p>\n<p>Job complains of an impenetrable darkness, but there was light enough for him to see the faint outline of the Almighty at work &#8211; his purifying work. &#8220;And when he tests me, I will come out as pure as gold.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of inner strength must it have taken for Job to stand up against the withering attacks from those around him, and to maintain his confidence toward God. &#8220;I have stayed on God&#8217;s paths; &#8230; I have not departed from his commands, but have treasured his words more than my daily food.&#8221; What commands &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=144\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What kind of inner strength? (Job 23)&#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":[5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"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=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}