{"id":666,"date":"2011-07-08T06:42:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T10:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=666"},"modified":"2011-07-16T09:25:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T13:25:23","slug":"step-outside-psalm-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=666","title":{"rendered":"Step outside (Psalm 57)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I look to you for protection.  I will hide beneath the shadow of your wings until the danger passes by.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>David was in a very precarious position, running from the king who was out to kill him, hiding in a cave hoping to lose his pursuers.<\/p>\n<p>He could easily have been so drained by this situation that there was no emotional strength left to pray, no ability to &#8220;step outside&#8221; his circumstances, so to speak, and consider them from God&#8217;s eternal perspective. But somehow he was able to, and this psalm of confidence and trust is a testimony to that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I look to you for protection. I will hide beneath the shadow of your wings until the danger passes by.&#8221; David was in a very precarious position, running from the king who was out to kill him, hiding in a cave hoping to lose his pursuers. He could easily have been so drained by this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=666\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Step outside (Psalm 57)&#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\/666"}],"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=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}