{"id":2099,"date":"2012-09-05T08:11:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T12:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2012-09-06T10:19:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T14:19:52","slug":"hosea-7-an-adequate-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2099","title":{"rendered":"(Hosea 7) An adequate answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>But they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek Him for all this.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here we have an answer to the question each of us has asked, &#8220;Why did <em>this<\/em> happen?&#8221;\u00a0 It is certainly not a comprehensive answer; it does not unpack for\u00a0us\u00a0the depth of God&#8217;s wisdom, nor the breadth of His providence at work in our lives.\u00a0\u00a0But it is an adequate answer: <em>So that<\/em> we my\u00a0return to the Lord our God; so that we may seek Him for all this, whatever <em>this<\/em> happens to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek Him for all this. Here we have an answer to the question each of us has asked, &#8220;Why did this happen?&#8221;\u00a0 It is certainly not a comprehensive answer; it does not unpack for\u00a0us\u00a0the depth of God&#8217;s wisdom, nor the breadth of His providence &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2099\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Hosea 7) An adequate answer&#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\/2099"}],"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=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}