{"id":1597,"date":"2012-04-27T08:52:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T12:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2012-04-28T07:35:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T11:35:56","slug":"psalm-78-he-isnt-safe-but-hes-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1597","title":{"rendered":"(Psalm 78) He isn&#8217;t safe, but he&#8217;s good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For their heart was not steadfast with Him, nor were they faithful in His covenant.\u00a0But He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them. Yes, many a time He turned His anger away,\u00a0<\/em> <em>and did not stir up all His wrath;\u00a0for He remembered that they were but flesh, a breath that passes away and does not come again<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It seems parodoxical that the Scriptures reveal a God whose very essence is love, yet whose wrath is terrible. God&#8217;s love cannot be overestimated, yet it is not to be taken for granted.\u00a0\u00a0His wrath has to be accounted for.<\/p>\n<p>In the Chronicles of Narnia, when confronted by the idea of Aslan, the lion, who is a picture of God, Lucy asks, \u201cIs He safe?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSafe?\u201d said Mr. Beaver. \u201dWho said anything about safe?\u00a0 Of course he isn\u2019t safe. But he\u2019s good. He\u2019s the King, I tell you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For their heart was not steadfast with Him, nor were they faithful in His covenant.\u00a0But He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them. Yes, many a time He turned His anger away,\u00a0 and did not stir up all His wrath;\u00a0for He remembered that they were but flesh, a breath that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1597\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Psalm 78) He isn&#8217;t safe, but he&#8217;s good&#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\/1597"}],"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=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}