{"id":2831,"date":"2013-03-21T08:19:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T12:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2013-04-01T08:26:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T12:26:15","slug":"to-whom-the-son-wills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2831","title":{"rendered":"To whom the Son wills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight.\u00a0\u00a0<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.\u00a0<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.\u00a0\u00a0 Matthew 11:26-28<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Who are those favored ones, we might ask, to whom the Son wills to reveal His Father?\u00a0 &#8220;To whom the Son wills&#8221;\u00a0 seems to note\u00a0deliberate, perhaps discriminatory\u00a0action.\u00a0 The answer is given in what immediately follows:\u00a0 &#8220;Come to Me, <em>all<\/em> you who labor and are heavy laden.&#8221;\u00a0 Praise God for His mercy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.\u00a0\u00a0Come to Me, all you who labor &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2831\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;To whom the Son wills&#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\/2831"}],"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=2831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2832,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions\/2832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}