{"id":150,"date":"2010-10-13T18:55:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T22:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=150"},"modified":"2010-10-13T21:45:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T01:45:39","slug":"ultimately-a-giver-job-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Ultimately a Giver \n(Job 29)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why would God take from Job his wealth, when he used it to help the poor and needy?<\/p>\n<p>Why would God take from Job his family, when he was such a good Dad and a godly role model?<\/p>\n<p>Why would God take from Job his health, when he served God with all his strength?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Lord gave me what I had,&#8221; Job declared, &#8220;and the Lord has taken it away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is doubtless God&#8217;s prerogative to give and to take away, but surely the Creator of so great a universe is ultimately a Giver and not a Taker. So, if that is true, what is being given to Job in place of those things the Lord has taken away?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why would God take from Job his wealth, when he used it to help the poor and needy? Why would God take from Job his family, when he was such a good Dad and a godly role model? Why would God take from Job his health, when he served God with all his strength? &#8220;The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=150\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ultimately a Giver<br \/>\n(Job 29)&#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\/150"}],"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=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}