{"id":2204,"date":"2012-09-28T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2012-09-30T15:14:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T19:14:18","slug":"2204","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2204","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual laurels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>After all this&#8230;Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates; and [King] Josiah went out against him. But he sent messengers to him, saying, &#8220;What have I to do with you, king of Judah?\u00a0 I have\u00a0 not\u00a0 come\u00a0 against you this day, but against the house with which I have war; for God commanded me to make haste. Refrain\u00a0 from meddling with\u00a0 God, who\u00a0 is\u00a0 with me, lest He destroy you.&#8221; Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself so that he might fight with him, and did not heed the words of Necho from the mouth of God. So he came to fight in the Valley of Megiddo. And the archers shot King Josiah&#8230;so he died.\u00a0 II Chronicles 35:20-24<\/em><\/p>\n<p>None of us can afford to rest on our spiritual laurels.\u00a0 Now is the accepted time. Today is the day of salvation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all this&#8230;Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates; and [King] Josiah went out against him. But he sent messengers to him, saying, &#8220;What have I to do with you, king of Judah?\u00a0 I have\u00a0 not\u00a0 come\u00a0 against you this day, but against the house with which I have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2204\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spiritual laurels&#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\/2204"}],"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=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}