{"id":1613,"date":"2012-05-02T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2012-05-04T08:42:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T12:42:42","slug":"psalm-83-god-is-not-our-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1613","title":{"rendered":"(Psalm 83) God is not our enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>So pursue them with Your tempest, and frighten them with Your storm.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O Lord.\u00a0Let them be confounded and dismayed forever; yes, let them be put to shame and perish,\u00a0that they may know that You, whose name alone is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Lord would never frighten, confound, dismay or put to shame just for the thrill of it.\u00a0 His purposes&#8212;even in judgement&#8212;are always restorative, &#8220;that they may seek [His] name&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>God is not our enemy.\u00a0 It is we who are at enmity with Him, until we surrender to his love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So pursue them with Your tempest, and frighten them with Your storm. Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O Lord.\u00a0Let them be confounded and dismayed forever; yes, let them be put to shame and perish,\u00a0that they may know that You, whose name alone is the Lord, are the Most High &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1613\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Psalm 83) God is not our enemy&#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\/1613"}],"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=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1614,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}