{"id":1871,"date":"2012-06-30T10:11:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T14:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2012-07-03T06:52:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T10:52:43","slug":"2-chronicles-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1871","title":{"rendered":"(2 Chronicles 32) Drag them along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>However, when ambassadors arrived from Babylon to ask about the remarkable events that had taken place in the land, God withdrew from Hezekiah in order to test him and to see what was really in his heart.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>God is never far away, even when we knowingly sin against Him. This verse suggests that at times God may <em>seem<\/em> to be far away, even when we are praying, reading our Bible, etc., but then it may be only that He wants to prove our faith.<\/p>\n<p>Faith is indeed a journey.\u00a0 Sometimes our feelings lead us. Sometimes we have to drag them along behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However, when ambassadors arrived from Babylon to ask about the remarkable events that had taken place in the land, God withdrew from Hezekiah in order to test him and to see what was really in his heart. God is never far away, even when we knowingly sin against Him. This verse suggests that at times &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1871\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(2 Chronicles 32) Drag them along&#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\/1871"}],"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=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions\/1878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}