{"id":719,"date":"2011-07-20T06:33:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T10:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=719"},"modified":"2011-07-22T06:56:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T10:56:20","slug":"actions-and-reactions-1-samuel-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"Actions and reactions (1 Samuel 30)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then he said to Abiathar the priest, \u201cBring me the ephod!\u201d So Abiathar brought it.<\/p>\n<p>David was heart-broken to discover that his family and his livestock had been captured by raiding Amalekites, and that his hometown had been burned to the ground. I&#8217;m quite sure that his sadness turned to anger, and a strong desire for vengenance &#8212;a natural response. Yet David calls for the ephod in order to get direction from the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>Although the ephod is not available to us today, the Lord wants to guide and direct our actions and reactions, if we but ask him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then he said to Abiathar the priest, \u201cBring me the ephod!\u201d So Abiathar brought it. David was heart-broken to discover that his family and his livestock had been captured by raiding Amalekites, and that his hometown had been burned to the ground. I&#8217;m quite sure that his sadness turned to anger, and a strong desire &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=719\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Actions and reactions (1 Samuel 30)&#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":[5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719"}],"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=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}