{"id":208,"date":"2010-12-09T09:35:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T13:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=208"},"modified":"2010-12-10T09:36:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T13:36:44","slug":"foot-soldiers-exodus-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"Foot soldiers (Exodus 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord had warned Moses that Pharoah&#8217;s heart would be hard, and that he would not let the people go &#8220;unless [my] mighty hand compels him&#8221;. And yet Moses, perhaps shaken by the harshness of Pharoah&#8217;s response, asks the Lord, &#8220;Is this why you sent me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The foot soldiers in the Lord&#8217;s army have no ability (of their own) except availability. And like foot soldiers, they are not to concern themselves with the overall strategy of the war &#8211; the generals do that. No, the job of the foot soldier is to trust and obey. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord had warned Moses that Pharoah&#8217;s heart would be hard, and that he would not let the people go &#8220;unless [my] mighty hand compels him&#8221;. And yet Moses, perhaps shaken by the harshness of Pharoah&#8217;s response, asks the Lord, &#8220;Is this why you sent me?&#8221; The foot soldiers in the Lord&#8217;s army have no &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=208\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Foot soldiers (Exodus 5)&#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":[5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"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=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}