{"id":2040,"date":"2012-08-18T06:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T10:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2012-08-22T06:34:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T10:34:38","slug":"isaiah-55-childlike-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2040","title":{"rendered":"(Isaiah 55) Childlike faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For My thoughts\u00a0 are\u00a0 not your thoughts, nor\u00a0 are\u00a0 your ways My ways, says the Lord.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We are to have a childlike faith.\u00a0 This doesn&#8217;t mean we should be unthinking, but rather realize that, think as hard as we might, we are never going to plumb the depths nor scale the heights of God&#8217;s thoughts, God&#8217;s ways. But we know He is merciful and gracious, and, like a child, we can trust Him completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For My thoughts\u00a0 are\u00a0 not your thoughts, nor\u00a0 are\u00a0 your ways My ways, says the Lord. We are to have a childlike faith.\u00a0 This doesn&#8217;t mean we should be unthinking, but rather realize that, think as hard as we might, we are never going to plumb the depths nor scale the heights of God&#8217;s thoughts, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2040\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Isaiah 55) Childlike faith&#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\/2040"}],"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=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2041,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions\/2041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}