{"id":1946,"date":"2020-12-19T10:24:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:24:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:24:46","slug":"steadfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/12\/19\/steadfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Steadfast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=51\" target=\"_blank\">tomorrow&#8217;s lectionary<\/a>, a Psalm fragment &#8230; <em>&#8220;89:2 I declare that your steadfast love is established forever; your faithfulness is as firm as the heavens.&#8221;<\/em> How could the writer decide that God&#8217;s love was &#8216;steadfast&#8217; after all the good and bad experiences the people had been through? There must be more to faith than just &#8216;God has blessed me, things must be OK.&#8217;  Not only do people of faith suffer sometimes. Also people who are utter so-and-so&#8217;s sometimes prosper &#8211; and in their prospering cause others a lot of grief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But somewhere at the back of everything is a God of love and mercy and hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From tomorrow&#8217;s lectionary, a Psalm fragment &#8230; &#8220;89:2 I declare that your steadfast love is established forever; your faithfulness is as firm as the heavens.&#8221; How could the writer decide that God&#8217;s love was &#8216;steadfast&#8217; after all the good and bad experiences the people had been through? There must be more to faith than just &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/12\/19\/steadfast\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Steadfast&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}