{"id":2103,"date":"2012-09-06T08:14:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T12:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2012-09-07T08:36:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T12:36:26","slug":"hosea-8-even-a-mercy-in-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2103","title":{"rendered":"(Hosea 8) Even a mercy in this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>As for My sacrificial offerings,\u00a0they sacrifice meat and eat it,\u00a0but the Lord does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity\u00a0and punish their sins.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is no use going through the motions; God is not impressed.\u00a0 He sees us as we really are, yet He is merciful.\u00a0 <em>He will&#8230;punish their sins.<\/em>\u00a0 God is teaching us, correcting us, even at times punishing us through the circumstances of our lives.\u00a0 There is even a mercy in this, when through it all we are able to see our sins as that alone which cuts us off from everlasting life and happiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As for My sacrificial offerings,\u00a0they sacrifice meat and eat it,\u00a0but the Lord does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity\u00a0and punish their sins. It is no use going through the motions; God is not impressed.\u00a0 He sees us as we really are, yet He is merciful.\u00a0 He will&#8230;punish their sins.\u00a0 God is teaching &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2103\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Hosea 8) Even a mercy in this&#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\/2103"}],"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=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2104,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/2104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}