{"id":2122,"date":"2012-09-12T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2012-09-15T20:20:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T00:20:25","slug":"hosea-14-always-ajar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2122","title":{"rendered":"(Hosea 14) Always ajar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>O Israel, return to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity&#8230;.Say to Him, \u201cTake away all iniquity.\u00a0Receive us graciously.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is always a way back.\u00a0 The door to the Kingdom is always ajar.\u00a0 The invitation is a still,\u00a0small one, but clearly heard by anyone willing to listen.\u00a0 There is a divine RSVP accompanying this invitation.\u00a0 We must respond right away, while there is still time.\u00a0 But our response must be sincere, from a heart that resonates with these words:\u00a0 &#8220;O Lord, take away our iniquity.\u00a0 Receive us graciously.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Israel, return to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity&#8230;.Say to Him, \u201cTake away all iniquity.\u00a0Receive us graciously.&#8221; There is always a way back.\u00a0 The door to the Kingdom is always ajar.\u00a0 The invitation is a still,\u00a0small one, but clearly heard by anyone willing to listen.\u00a0 There is a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2122\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Hosea 14) Always ajar&#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\/2122"}],"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=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2144,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions\/2144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}