{"id":2259,"date":"2012-10-12T06:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2012-10-15T06:40:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T10:40:51","slug":"prevenient-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2259","title":{"rendered":"Prevenient grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved! For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt. I am mourning.\u00a0 Astonishment has taken hold of me.\u00a0 Is there\u00a0 no balm in Gilead, is there no physician there? Why then is there no recovery for the health of the daughter of my people?\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><em>Jeremiah 8:20-22<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Lord desires that all men be saved.\u00a0 All. If it were up to Him <em>absolutely<\/em>, that would surely be the case. But men, made in the image of God, retain their ability to choose God or reject God. Even in our fallen, corrupted state this is so. Our ability to reject God comes naturally. Our choice <em>for<\/em> God, although unnatural, is possible because of God&#8217;s prevenient grace. Faith is a gift that must be actively received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved! For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt. I am mourning.\u00a0 Astonishment has taken hold of me.\u00a0 Is there\u00a0 no balm in Gilead, is there no physician there? Why then is there no recovery for the health of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2259\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prevenient grace&#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\/2259"}],"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=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions\/2261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}