{"id":2211,"date":"2012-09-30T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2012-10-01T08:23:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T12:23:51","slug":"hasten-the-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2211","title":{"rendered":"Hasten the coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Behold,\u00a0 is it\u00a0 not of the Lord of hosts that the peoples labor to feed the fire, and nations weary themselves in vain? For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.\u00a0\u00a0 Habakkuk 2:13-14<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Without God, life is meaningless, and all our labor and striving&#8212;whatever it is&#8212;is like someone feeding a fire, where all is consumed, destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>But God is with us.\u00a0 God&#8217;s promises will not fail.\u00a0 The earth will some day be filled with the knowledge of the Lord.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s you and I do what\u00a0we can now to hasten the coming of that Great Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behold,\u00a0 is it\u00a0 not of the Lord of hosts that the peoples labor to feed the fire, and nations weary themselves in vain? For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.\u00a0\u00a0 Habakkuk 2:13-14 Without God, life is meaningless, and all our labor &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2211\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hasten the coming&#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\/2211"}],"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=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions\/2217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}