{"id":2219,"date":"2012-10-01T16:47:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T20:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2012-10-02T17:05:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T21:05:20","slug":"regardless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2219","title":{"rendered":"Regardless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Though the fig tree may not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines,\u00a0though the labor of the olive may fail, and the fields yield no food, though the flock may be cut off from the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls&#8212;yet I will rejoice in the Lord;\u00a0I will joy in the God of my salvation.\u00a0\u00a0 Habakkuk 3:17-18<\/em><\/p>\n<p>All of us should be thankful for the things that we have.\u00a0 We count them as blessings.\u00a0 And yet, the only thing each of us can really call our own is our personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Everything else passes away.\u00a0 Though there be fig trees and fruit and flocks in abundance, it will all pass away.\u00a0 But our love for God and His love for us will never pass away. It goes on and on forever.\u00a0 This is why the prophet could rejoice in the Lord&#8212;regardless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the fig tree may not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines,\u00a0though the labor of the olive may fail, and the fields yield no food, though the flock may be cut off from the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls&#8212;yet I will rejoice in the Lord;\u00a0I will joy in the God &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2219\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Regardless&#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\/2219"}],"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=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2220,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions\/2220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}