{"id":2368,"date":"2012-11-14T09:09:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T13:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2012-11-16T09:29:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T13:29:26","slug":"follow-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2368","title":{"rendered":"Follow hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;For I have set My face against this city for adversity and not for good,\u201d says the Lord. \u201cIt shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremiah 21:10<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We Christians are fond of saying, &#8220;The Lord is in control&#8221;.\u00a0 But what do we actually mean when we say that?\u00a0 How\u00a0are we comforted?\u00a0 Strengthened?\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;m afraid that, sometimes at least, we mean little more than a Christian version of &#8220;It&#8217;ll be alright&#8221;.\u00a0 A Christian colloquialism.<\/p>\n<p>The Lord<em> is\u00a0<\/em>in control.\u00a0\u00a0 We are comforted and strengthened when we remind ourselves of that reality.\u00a0 Comforted when our cross seems too heavy to bear.\u00a0 Strengthened to continue to bear it.\u00a0 Carry your cross, Christian\u00a0and follow.\u00a0 Follow hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For I have set My face against this city for adversity and not for good,\u201d says the Lord. \u201cIt shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremiah 21:10 We Christians are fond of saying, &#8220;The Lord is in control&#8221;.\u00a0 But what do we actually &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2368\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Follow hard&#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\/2368"}],"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=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2369,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}