{"id":2112,"date":"2012-09-09T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2012-09-10T08:29:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T12:29:58","slug":"hosea-11-run-to-him-with-heart-churning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2112","title":{"rendered":"(Hosea 11) Run to Him, with heart churning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>My people are bent on backsliding from Me. Though they call to the Most High, none at all exalt\u00a0 Him.\u00a0 How can I give you up, Ephraim?\u00a0 How\u00a0 can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah?\u00a0 How\u00a0 can I set you like Zeboiim? My heart churns within Me; My sympathy is stirred. I will not execute the fierceness of My anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim. For I\u00a0 am\u00a0 God, and not man, the Holy One in your midst; and I will not come with terror.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My heart churns within me. My sympathy is stirred.&#8221; The Almighty, the Most High, condescends, stoops low.\u00a0 How approachable, even humble, is the Holy One in our midst.\u00a0 What a revelation!<\/p>\n<p>Admah and Zeboiim were ancient, pagan cities destroyed in the LORD&#8217;s fierce anger, along with Sodom and Gomorrah.\u00a0 Cities filled with wickedness, godlessness. Israel, &#8220;My people&#8221;, are little better, almost totally given over to pagan idolatry.\u00a0 Yet, although worthy of destruction, they will be shown mercy.\u00a0 Why? &#8220;For I am God, and not man.&#8221;\u00a0 God is faithful to faithless Israel.\u00a0 He is mindful of\u00a0His covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.<\/p>\n<p>How foolish it is to turn from God.\u00a0 It only leads to death and destruction.\u00a0 Turn to God.\u00a0 No matter what you&#8217;ve done or haven&#8217;t done in the past. Guilty? Confused? Hurting? Run to Him, with\u00a0heart churning.\u00a0 His heart is churning too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My people are bent on backsliding from Me. Though they call to the Most High, none at all exalt\u00a0 Him.\u00a0 How can I give you up, Ephraim?\u00a0 How\u00a0 can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah?\u00a0 How\u00a0 can I set you like Zeboiim? My heart churns within Me; My sympathy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2112\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Hosea 11) Run to Him, with heart churning&#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\/2112"}],"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=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2115,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions\/2115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}