{"id":2233,"date":"2012-10-06T08:15:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T12:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2233"},"modified":"2012-10-08T08:24:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T12:24:10","slug":"the-elephant-in-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2233","title":{"rendered":"The elephant in the room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Do you not fear Me?&#8221; says the Lord. &#8220;Will you not tremble at My presence, who have placed the sand as the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass beyond it? And though its waves toss to and fro, yet they cannot prevail. Though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it.\u00a0But this people has a defiant and rebellious heart. They have revolted and departed.\u00a0They do not say in their heart, &#8216;Let us now fear the Lord our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season. He reserves for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.&#8217;\u00a0Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have withheld good from you.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremiah 5:22-25<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As sinful people, we find it all too easy to live without the fear of the Lord, even though death and destruction is just ahead for each of us.\u00a0 Death is the elephant in the room, but nobody pays it much attention.\u00a0 The fear of Lord is life&#8212;eternal life.<em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do you not fear Me?&#8221; says the Lord. &#8220;Will you not tremble at My presence, who have placed the sand as the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass beyond it? And though its waves toss to and fro, yet they cannot prevail. Though they roar, yet they cannot pass &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2233\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The elephant in the room&#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\/2233"}],"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=2233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2235,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions\/2235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}