{"id":2323,"date":"2012-11-02T09:22:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T13:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2012-11-05T09:31:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T13:31:34","slug":"we-must-respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2323","title":{"rendered":"We must respond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: &#8220;Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge those who are carried away captive from Judah, whom I have sent out of this place for their own good, into the land of the Chaldeans.\u00a0 For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.\u00a0Then I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the Lord; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me with their whole heart.\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremiah 24:5-7<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I will give them a heart to know Me.\u00a0 <\/em>We are mortal, sinful, self-centered.\u00a0 None of us are God-seekers, on our own.\u00a0 The grace of God is prevenient, and enables us to respond to God in faith.\u00a0 But still we must respond.\u00a0 God won&#8217;t (can&#8217;t) do that for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: &#8220;Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge those who are carried away captive from Judah, whom I have sent out of this place for their own good, into the land of the Chaldeans.\u00a0 For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2323\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We must respond&#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\/2323"}],"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=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}