{"id":1669,"date":"2012-05-20T08:27:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T12:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2012-05-22T08:18:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T12:18:38","slug":"amos-1-god-condescends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1669","title":{"rendered":"(2 Chronicles 1) Carte blanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Then God said to Solomon: \u201cBecause this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches or wealth or honor or the life of your enemies, nor have you asked long life\u2014but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge My people over whom I have made you king\u2014wisdom and knowledge are granted to you.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is interesting that God says, &#8220;&#8230;nor have you asked long life&#8221;.\u00a0 A long, happy life would seem to be on the top of anyone&#8217;s list, were one able to submit such a list to the Almighty.\u00a0 God is not, of course,\u00a0 concerned with granting our requests carte blanche.\u00a0 His plans for us are eternal, not temporal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then God said to Solomon: \u201cBecause this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches or wealth or honor or the life of your enemies, nor have you asked long life\u2014but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge My people over whom I have made you king\u2014wisdom and knowledge &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1669\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(2 Chronicles 1) Carte blanche&#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\/1669"}],"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=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1672,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}