{"id":2238,"date":"2012-10-08T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2012-10-10T08:08:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T12:08:20","slug":"inconceivable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2238","title":{"rendered":"Inconceivable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For I earnestly exhorted your fathers in the day I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, until this day, rising early and exhorting, saying, Obey My voice. Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but everyone followed the dictates of his evil heart; therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but which they have not done.\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremiah 11:7-8<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is inconceivable that the infinite God of the universe would desire&#8212;strongly desire&#8212;a vital personal relationship with human beings.\u00a0 Inconceivable to us\u00a0earth-bound creatures\u00a0because it is a truth revealed from heaven. The relationship is not like one might have were he to find a genie in a bottle.\u00a0 God doesn&#8217;t want to amaze you with tricks, but He does want to fill your life, my life, even as He fills heaven and earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For I earnestly exhorted your fathers in the day I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, until this day, rising early and exhorting, saying, Obey My voice. Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but everyone followed the dictates of his evil heart; therefore I will bring upon them all &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2238\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Inconceivable&#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\/2238"}],"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=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/2241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}