{"id":3492,"date":"2014-06-18T15:25:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T19:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=3492"},"modified":"2014-06-18T22:51:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T02:51:23","slug":"the-heart-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3492","title":{"rendered":"The heart of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>II Tim 4:16<\/em><br \/>\n<em>At my first defense no one stood with me, but all forsook me. May it not be charged against them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the Spirit of Christ, the apostle here echoes the gracious words spoken from the cross, &#8220;Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.&#8221; We are not to return evil for evil, but blessing. \u00a0We are to be kind when it would be easier to be thoughtless. We are to be forgiving when it would be easier to hold a grudge. This is the heart of God, for He is not willing that anyone perish. \u00a0He stands ready to forgive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>II Tim 4:16 At my first defense no one stood with me, but all forsook me. May it not be charged against them. In the Spirit of Christ, the apostle here echoes the gracious words spoken from the cross, &#8220;Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.&#8221; We are not to return evil &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3492\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The heart of God&#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\/3492"}],"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=3492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3495,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions\/3495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}